DVD - Tack - Jibe - Capsize
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Physics of Sailing

We cannot change the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Rick White's Sailing Seminars
Five Videos from Rick White's Sailing Seminars. now ALL on One DVD.

They Are: Total Boat Handling (Gain complete control of your boat -- stop on a dime, accelerate quickly, tack and jibe fast make the boat do what YOU want IT to do, not what It wants to do Upwind Sailing & the Complete Catamaran Rolltack ((Learn everything about getting to the upwind mark quickly and also learn to do very fast roll tacks -- instead of 25 seconds to tack, you will tack in mere seconds) Great Starts and Finishes (Learn how to have great starts every time.., and learn the importance of the finish and how many boats you can pass there) Great Mark Roundings( (Learn to pass many, many boats at each and every mark! You will always come away in clear air and in good tactical position! Downwind Sailing ((Learn all the top secrets of downwind speed.., Plus all about Spinnakers, Hooters, & Snuffers!
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1. Press rudder
2. Close mainsail
3. Observe foresail
4. The foresail falls, open mainsail immediately, change side
5. The crew changes at the same time and opens after the foresail

Attention:
Pull the mainsail close until the foresail stands aback, i.e. until the cat has turned through the wind. "The catamaran turns by the mainsail!" better the "pulling movement" turns the boat.

With much wind or/and wave the catamaran stops in the wind.
Possible error:
The mainsail was not pulled closely enough.
(with strong wind older sails blow strongly out in the top that the boat cannot turn sufficient any longer .)

1. Adjusting the sails to off - wind course (wind spion 90° to the boat)
2. Attendant + Vorschoter move to the center, tiller into the other hand, hold Grosschot
3. Continue to drop on Vorwindkurs(foresail breaks in),shift mainsail to the new side +crew changes place
4. Continue to new off - wind course (telltale 90°)

Attention:
On the new course the mainsail does not shift first, after it does with too much momentum.

1. After capsize, crew hangs at the cat?
2. Climb on the lower hull
3. Sheeting open + make righting line ready.
4. Cat align to prevent a renewed capsize
5. Crew to the righting line and put upright the catamaran.

Attention:
- the catamaran might turn completely over, therefore swim away briskly from the trampoline.
- do not put upright the cat as long as the wind blows off the tail .
- a crew too light can use the attached foresail as help

turned "turtle"
If the catamaran has completely inverted the first task is to raise the sail so that it is parallel to the water.
After capsize crew moves to the leeward corner.
Now the wind will help to righten up the boat by blowing to the windward corner.

Problem:
Older masts easily fill up with water, righting up can be very difficult.