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Sail Training Research Directory

There is an ever-growing body of research looking at different areas of sail training and its benefits for young people.

Below you can access a range of academic studies and articles hosted by different institutions and publications via our Research Directory.

Some of these articles are free to access, but others will require an active subscription, a one off purchase, or access via your academic institution. Please refer to individual publications for further information.

Sail Training Research Articles

Sail training as education: more than mere adventure

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03054985.2010.495466

Steering a course towards eudaimonia: the effects of sail training on well-being and character

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14729679.2017.1294490

Effect of Teaching Races for Understanding in Youth Sailing on Performance, Knowledge, and Adherence

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02701367.2017.1376032

An exploration of the perceived health, life skill and academic benefits of dinghy sailing for 9–13-year-old school children

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14729679.2018.1424001

Navigating procedural ethics and ethics in practice in outdoor studies: an example from sail training

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14729679.2021.1902826

Exploring the development of judgement and decision making in ‘competent’ outdoor instructors

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14729679.2021.1884105

Enhancing resilience in youth through a 10-day developmental voyage

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14729679.2013.843143

Ideologies of adventure: authority and decision making in sail training

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14729670485200531

Sail training: using acculturation to activate a socio-cultural or natural pedagogy

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681366.2020.1735495

The Evolution of Sail Training from the Nineteenth Century to the 1980s

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00253359.2020.1736400

Recovery under sail: Rehabilitation clients’ experience of a sail training voyage

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/16066359.2015.1123252

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