Start here.
Get on the water
The best way to learn is to go sailing. A local sailing club or a "learn to sail" course is the usual way in – and plenty of boats happily take on crew with zero experience. You learn the most by actually doing it.
Learn the language
Sailing has its own vocabulary, and it can sound like a foreign language at first. The guides below help unpack some of these terms. Nothing here assumes you already know it.
Start small, build up
Begin close to shore on gentle days. As your confidence grows, so does where you can go. Offshore racing is the deep end – nobody expects you to start there, build your way up to it and see what you think.
Offshore racing, explained.
Short Instagram reels paired with explanations and guides.
The sport gets better when more people, from different backgrounds, can be part of it.
Built for short-handed offshore racing.
Alliance is a Dehler 30 One Design – drawn by naval architects Judel/Vrolijk for one purpose: fast, safe, two-person offshore racing. See how the hull, the sail wardrobe and the electronics come together.
Explore the boat →Why a campaign, why now.
Sailing is a brilliant, demanding sport – and like engineering, it gets better with a wider mix of minds and voices. I believe accessible education is the first stop in building something that lasts.