User:Cabellwg/Draft of Short-course sailboat racing strategy

 Short course racing strategy is the aspect of short course racing concerned with planning courses and maneuvers for entire races or legs of races. The necessity of tacking (and often  gybing) coupled with wind shifts makes strategy useful, since a boat may gain an advantage by sailing to a side of the course or tacking at certain points.

In one-design racing, strategy becomes even more important because the boats theoretically move at the same speed (although in practice skilled sailors can usually sail much faster than unskilled sailors).