By jibing (or as you say in Britain: gybing) the stern moves through the wind from broad reach to broad reach. It is the second way of changing tack. Equally by doing this, we reach…

In this chapter I will explain how to heave-to. This manoeuvre is always shown as the last to the sailing students, because they would do nothing else otherwise for the rest of the course. After…

In this chapter I explain how to leave the dock under sail. I assume that we want to leave from a jetty that extends into the water. Like for example from the bank into a…

In the last chapter we learned how to leave the dock. But how do we bring the boat back safely? The problem is: We do not want to crash into the jetty at full speed,…

  In the next three chapters I will explain the rules of the road between sailboats and you. We are mostly not alone on the water and we often cross the courses of other boats.…

  In the last chapter I explained how sailboats keep out of the way that have the wind from different sides. One boat has the wind from starboard and the other one from port side.…

In the last two chapters we learned what should happen when two sailing vessels approach one another and there is a risk of collision. One of them has to give way and the other has…