5 Essentials

1. Sail Setting

2. Centerboard

3. Balance

4. Trim

5. Course made good 

Center mainsheet tacking

Look forward, dagger grip, change hands after tack.

• look & warn

• backfoot

• push

• rotate

• sit

• straighten

• change hands

'ready about' 'ready' lee ho'

Center mainsheet gybing

Training run (jib), centerboard almost up, boom clear of shroud

• look & warn

• back foot 

• rotate

• push

• boom/falls

• straighten

• sit

• change hands

'Stand by to gybe' ready' 'gybe oh'

Aft mainsheet tacking 

Look aft, fying pan grip,change hands before tack

• look & warn

• change hands 

• front foot

• push

• rotate

• sit

• straighten 

'ready about' tcp 'ready' 'lee oh'

Aft mainsheet gybing

Training run (jib), centerboard almost up, boom clear of shroud

• look & warn

• change hands 

• front foot

• rotate

• push

• boom

• straighten

• sit 

'Stand by to gybe'  'raedy'  'gybe ho'