“Sailing Better with Marco Nannini”: don’t miss the fourth DVD in the series bundled with the May issue of SAIL!

Optionally attached to the May issue of the Sailing Newspaper on newsstands(at the special price of €9.90 instead of €14.90), you will find the fourth and final DVD in the series “Sailing Better with Marco Nannini,” with which you will learn all the tricks of going to sea together with the great sailor from Turin. It starts with adjusting the sails (mainsail, jib and genoa) to gain speed by acting on the controls available on a standard hull. You will then move on to upwind sailing, learning conducting techniques and adjustments that vary with different weather and sea conditions. Nannini, who has sailed more than 50,000 miles solo and in doubles, will teach you how to optimize the boat’s performance on the beam and in carrying swells, maneuvering with spi and gennaker. And when bad weather comes? Marco will provide you with many useful tips to avoid disasters at sea and, in case of a man overboard, he will explain all the techniques for recovery: these are the topics addressed in the second DVD by Marco Nannini, our 2012 Sailor of the Year, who in 2010/11 finished second in the Global Ocean Race, the circumnavigation of the globe in doubles.

“SAIL BETTER WITH MARCO NANNINI” DVD NUMBER 4
It starts with adjusting the sails (mainsail, jib and genoa) to gain speed by acting on the controls available on a standard hull. You will then move on to upwind sailing, learning conducting techniques and adjustments that vary with different weather and sea conditions. Nannini, who has sailed more than 50,000 miles solo and in doubles, will teach you how to optimize the boat’s performance on the beam and in carrying swells, maneuvering with spi and gennaker. And when bad weather comes? Marco will provide you with many useful tips to avoid disasters at sea and, in case of a man overboard, he will explain all the techniques for recovery: these are the topics addressed in the second DVD by Marco Nannini, our 2012 Sailor of the Year, who in 2010/11 finished second in the Global Ocean Race, the circumnavigation of the globe in doubles.

CONTENTS
Here is what you find on the fourth DVD:
You will board a cruising boat together with our 2012 Sailor of the Year, who sailed 50,000 miles around the world.

1. THE SETTING OF SAILS
– The adjustment of the jib
– The trolley and warping
– The fatness of the sail
– The adjustment of the roller shutter
– Reducing the headsail
– The adjustment of the mainsail
– The controls on which to act
– Mainsail track and sheet
– Vang, backstay, halyard and base

2. THE BOLINA.
– Upwind navigation
– Sailing in a light wind
– Sailing in medium wind
– Sailing in high winds

3. TRAVERSE AND BEARING GAITS
– Navigation on the transverse
– Slack and stern
– Spinnaker and gennaker
– The hoist
– The gybe
– Problems with the gennaker

4. BAD WEATHER ARRIVES.
– The life raft
– Protecting the crew
– Gale sails

5. THE MAN AT SEA.
– Man overboard, what to do
– The “figure eight” recovery maneuver
– The recovery with “stop and jibe”
– The sail and motor recovery

WHO IS MARCO NANNINI, THE AUTHOR OF THE FOUR-DVD PRACTICAL COURSE
Marco Nannini, from Turin, graduated in economics from England. In 2004 he moved to London where he worked in finance and cultivated his passion for sailing. It was in England that he took his first steps in ocean racing with small crew racing, attending all the RYA’s Yacht Master courses. In 2009 he participated in and won in his class the legendary OSTAR, the solo race from Plymouth UK to Newport in the United States. In 2010 Marco bought the Class40 that had participated in the first edition of the Global Ocean Race. With this boat Marco competed in the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland finishing in second place. In November 2010 he participated in the Route du Rhum, 3500 miles solo from France to Guadeloupe. Then he amazed everyone by finishing second overall in the 2010/2011 GOR(Global Ocean Race), round-the-world sailing in just two crew members.