Sailing Coach Christian Rasmussen

19/10/2025

Sailing Coach Christian Rasmussen

- Professional Sailing Coach specializing in Olympic and international classes.

- Accomplished tactician and trimmer in Dragons, Etchels, J-70, Melges 24, Knarr, and more.

- Earned multiple European and World Championships medals as a Helmsman across Olympic and international racing classes.

- Mentored sailors to secure 9 World and European championship medals and numerous victories in World Cup regattas across 3 Olympic Classes.

-Trained sailors to secure 8 World and European championship medals in international one design dinghys and keelboats
classes.

-Recognized for winning international regatta medals while serving as a tactician and trimmer in international keelboat classes.

- Adept project developer for Olympic sailing teams.

- Sailmaker and sail design developer with contributions to North/Dimond Sails and Werner Fritz Sails, specializing in boat speed optimization and sail design adjustments, as well as boat equipment (sails, mast, hull, foils).

- Accomplished physical trainer and developer of customized physical training programs.

Education:
• Diploma in Coaching, Sports Confederation of Denmark
• Certified in Coaching I+II (Sports Psychology Education, Sports Confederation of Denmark)
• Primary School Teacher with a focus on sports
• Sailmaker
• Proficient Carpenter

CV and recommendations available upon request.

17/12/2024

My coaching experiences from 1995 to 2024

21/03/2022

I am a proud trainer⛵️

Starboat team Jack Jennings and Pedro Trouche, took Two bullets in the prestigious Star Boat Bacardi cup 2022⛵️🌊☀️🇺🇸🇧🇷.

The Barcardi Cup 2022 had a really competitive fleet with a mix of sailing legends, World Champions and Olympians.
Congratulations to Jack and Pedro. Really well well done 💪💪
I coached team Jennings / Trouche in the period leading up to the Bacardi Cup and we will also work together in the future⛵️

02/03/2022

Yesterday I had the opportunity together with North Sail designer Henrik Soderlund , to make a Knarr Boatspeed and Racing Trim seminar. We also had talks about the development of the Knarr boat over the years. Thank you to the Danish Knarr Association for inviting me 😊⛵️🌊🇩🇰

14/02/2022

11/02/2022

11/02/2022

Training sailors for winning speed and tactics⛵️

A successful first day of the Miami Starboat Midwinters Series.
My sailing team Jack Jennings (USA) & Pedro Trouche(BRA) performed really well. They won the second race today and are overall 2nd in a very competitive Starboat fleet👍🇧🇷🇺🇸

A good preparation before the
regatta with four days of training gave the team the confidence to perform great starts, winning tactics and top speed.

Day One at the Walker Cup & Midwinters
2 good races, relatively flat water, northerly at 8-11 knots

Full Results Link Below
1. Paul Cayard (USA) & Firthjof Kleen (GER) 4 pts.
2. Jack Jennings (USA) & Pedro Trouche (BRA) 6 pts.
3. Piet Eckert (SUI) & Frederico Melo (POR) 9 pts.
4. Augie Diaz & John VanSchwartz (USA) 9 pts.
5. Eric Doyle & Payson Infelise (USA) 12 pts.

Overall Results https://yachtscoring.com/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=14747

18/05/2021

Another great training camp coaching the Danish Knarr Class at the “Knarr Trim Cup” at Skovshoved Havn.

The training camp was arranged together with SKS, Dansk Knarr Klub, North Sails designer and Knarr sailor Henrik Søderlund.

Training started on land tuning the rig on all boats.
Mast rake, mast position and shroud tension was adjusted.
On water the focus was to improve the steering technique and sail adjustments in order to get more boat speed.
After 3 days of trimming all teams were sailing the boats really well and several made significant progress.
Therefor racing got quite close during the final of the Trim Cup where starts and tactical decisions decided the race.

Personally I have a life long experience with Knarr boat sailing. I sailed the boat since I was a child and my father won several championships in this class. Therefor I really enjoy training the Knarr class contributing to the class future.

02/05/2021

Returning to coach sailors after a long corona pandemic lockdown.
Last week I had the opportunity to make training for the Danish Contender Class Association. ⛵️🌊☀️🇩🇰

The Contender dinghy is a really fast single-handed dinghy with trapeze. The Contender mainsail and mast is trimmed very similar to the olympic 470 dinghy.

We had every day training in 18-24 knots of wind, so it was really challenging conditions. Nice opportunity to improve sailor’s skill set. We focused on dinghy depower trim, steering techniques and body movement in waves.

Next week I will be organizing a training camp for the Danish Knarr Association.

(Photos by Heegaard Fotografi)