2005-2008 Racing Rules of SailingWith US SAILING PRESCRIPTIONSTo be Available By End of Year
July 28 - US SAILING announced today that the production of The Racing Rules of Sailing 2005-2008 Including US SAILING Prescriptions is on schedule and will be available before the end of the year. The Racing Rules are effective on January 1, 2005. Members of US SAILING will receive a free copy of the new rules before the end of the year and additional copies will be available for purchase through US SAILING's online store. Dave Perry's Understanding the Racing Rules Through 2008, a companion to The Racing Rules of Sailing, is currently being produced and will also be available by the end of the year. Full Story
posted by Breakwater 7/29/2004 06:57:00 AM
US SAILING Online Sailing Education.
If you have not visited http://www.sailingcourse.com , it is time to do so. Sailing Course dot COM is a US SAILING website, free for public viewing, and currently has a new easy-to-use FLASH navigational interface. The site currently houses:
Six sailing courses and one powerboating course, with a total of eight online computer graded tests. 660 text documents with 254,000 words of text, numerous pictures and illustrations.
89 Video Presentations, 16 animated gifs, 6 PowerPoint presentation, 8 FLASH presentations, and 2 interactive JAVA programs.
Recent Website Expansions Include:
"Introduction To Sailboat Racing" This section is for the sailor who wishes to get started in racing it is divided into two parts "Basics of Sailboat Racing" and "The Basic Rules Of Sailboat Racing" and uses 16 Computer Animated Videos, two FLASH Slide presentations along with a MS Producer Video Presentations (and for Dial-Up users there is an HTML version). After reviewing the two sections you can take a 20 question racing test to test your knowledge.
“The Many Ways To Experience Sailing” This section discusses the different types of sailing and is targeted to the non-sailor. It is available in HTML, FLASH Slides and MS Producer Video format.
Kevin Kavanagh
US SAILING Training Committee
posted by Breakwater 7/26/2004 10:11:00 AM