Saturday 25 May 2013
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Sonar Tuning Guide

The class hopes to produce its own tuning guide in the near future but until then the main sailmakers to the class have tuning guides available:
 
http://www.doylesails.com/sonar-tuning.htm

http://shoresails.com/onedesign/sonarguide.htm

http://www.northsailsod.com/class/sonar/sonar_tuning.html

The Sonar Class Association has published a number of articles on tuning and racing the Sonar and these are available at:

http://www.sonar.org/
 
One of the top US Sonar sailors is Pete Galloway, who conducted a Sonar Seminar covering tuning, trim, crew work, starting, strategy, and tactics. Download a PDF outline of the Seminar here.

Dave Franzel - Also one of the USA's top sailors has prepared an upwind tuning guide for the UK Class Association. Details can be downloaded here.