Weather team member Rod Dawson (NZL) is the mainsail trimmer for Peter Gilmour's champion match racing team on the Swedish Match Tour (of which BMW is a sponsor-partner).

Am told by friends in the States who have seen it that Rod has penned a very good article on mainsail trimming. It appears in the October issue of Sailing World magazine which is just out.

"They asked me to write something to help a person who maybe has just been given the job of trimming the main on a keelboat for the first time," Rod said. "We race a wide range of boats on the Tour, but there are some things about trimming mains that apply generally across the board. Hope it helps."

No surprise how many good sailors there on this team, even among those not on the race boat.


Rod "Hemingway" Dawson at the base this evening.