In the build-up to the 2015 Etchells Worlds in Hong Kong, my team on Aretas changed two key important items designed by Andrew Palfrey, an Etchells world champ and Olympic sailor, and recently adopted ...

As a sailmaker, I sometimes feel like a doctor talking to an ill patient calling me with a list of symptoms, asking me—without a proper examination, mind you—to diagnose the ailment and offer a cure.