Competing in regatas it agrees to understand the differences between which she is tactical and strategy. Tactical of boat will be person in charge to obtain that boat walks as well as possible and surpasses to other sailboats, by means of adjustments and changes in configuration of candles, whereas the strategy defines the form in which we will make decisions in the medium and long term, like are it the election of the route to follow and the changes adopted following winds and currents that appear.

A change in the positions of the other competitors also can involve a change of strategy in regata, and these will be more important at the most long is the duration of regata. For that reason in regatas a morning, the tactics are fundamental, and in one regata oceanic that can last months, will be the strategy the one that weighs on the final result of the classification.

The tactical one is one of the most important members of the crew, and it will be in charge to watch the water, to feel the wind and to watch all the competitors who we have around to ours. The other members of the equipment are to him informing so that it can make the best decisions. It is a hard work in which the decision making improvement with the experience of many years and many miles of navigation in many conditions and sea disturbance. At the outset one has the tendency to watch at the compass and the wind instruments to regulate the boat as well as possible, but paying too much attention to the other boats, as if we sailed alone. Eye! Coverall we must consider which makes our adversaries and combine this information with which we obtain from them wind instrument and compasses of the boat.

The tactical one has `to feel the wind' of innate form and to have great capacity to analyze all the data that take from the race. It very works of the hand with the pilot and the navigator, reason why it must be understood with them and have certain `well chemical' that he makes them fuse itself of direct form.  Good memory to analyze the weather datas, to remember all the rules of regata and spatial orientation is also characteristic fundamental of good a tactical one.

In order to be able to apply good tactics we must obvious count on good data and although many of them, fundamental we directly took, them from the wind and from the sea, others come on board from the instruments, like chronometers, compasses, prism binocular to observe the adversary, the wind instruments that offer inestimable details and a notebook and a pencil to even take our notes and partial times. In her we will take written the instructions of regata and other important data, like currents, engineering datas of configuration of candles, etc. We can use one's wits them so that they are resistant to the water and write in them with greasy pencils. Also it is possible to fix some surface of writing to the bathtub to take fast notes. We must take by hand the polar curves of the candles to apply to the best solution at every moment and with each force and wind angle. The compass of markings is important to take references in front of the adversary. Many tactical ones decide to install a digital compass with the screen in the wood, so that they avoid to have to install a compass to each band of the boat.

He is advisable to dedicate a place of the boat in which to keep all these `tools' from taking of data, and which is safe, since in a good list everything could go away to the ground and be soaked. It does not put metallic things near the compass since, surely, it will alter his indications.   

It is not obsessed with the data. The important thing is to receive everything altogether and to analyze coldly the data. Later already it will have time to watch at great length the instruments and to fit the decision making in detail.

By the VHF radio it can receive the weather messages or conditions of currents and tides. Also it can listen to things that are said in other boats, and for that reason it is necessary to take it open and in listening. And it does not forget the sun glasses very necessary to watch in the sea the evolution of the other participants when they are to backlighting and between the shining waves.