Talk:Sailing (sport)

Merge proposal
Sailing (sport), Dinghy racing and Yacht racing are overlapping terms. Smartskaft (talk) 10:07, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose They are not coextensive. They are separate concepts.  Different events entirely.  Merge makes no sense.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 11:55, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose Makes about as much sense as merging sports cars and tractors. M Carling 19:23, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose While dinghy and yacht racing are both types of sailboat racing, they differ in much the same way kart racing and formula racing differ. They use different vehicles, equipment, techniques, and organizations.  Further, both pages seem to have sufficient content to warrant individual entries.

Race formats
That section needs improving. Clearness on what constitutes what; definitions are not too good. It can be defined by miles from land or by protected or sheltered/semi-protected/non-protected or open waters; some also define that by number of sides of the boat from which you can see land: offshore 0 (no land in sight), coastal 1, inshore 2(3) - problem with that definition is sailing on big (huge) lakes which can have conditions of non-protected waters and miles-from-land of offshore sailing. Also you can have open/non-protected waters very few miles from shore.
 * Inshore (less than 3 miles from land by some sources)
 * Coastal (less than 25 miles form land by some sources)
 * Offshore - also called bluewater sailing
 * Oceanic (Oceanic racing is defined as any offshore race over 800 miles. by World Sailing)

Maybe connect definitions with brown water environment, green water environment, blue water environment.

Some people think that "coastal sailing is following the coast no matter how far off the coast one is" - a word on that misconception. 213.149.62.88 (talk) 15:19, 28 October 2018 (UTC)