Some of you have part of it right but most of it wrong. I got Rick's Video of Upwind Sailing and Cat Roll Tacking and now I know how to do it right! You otta too!
<br>He says you should be going fast and close-hauled, main must be sheeted hard. Then you push the tiller with steadily increasing presser til the bows are going directly through the eye of the wind, and all that while you are moving to the back, windward afte corerner of the boat.
<br>As the boat is head to wind you release the sheet about 3 or 4 feet on the H17 (the main helps steer up and weathervane the boat into the wind, but if you leave it cleated it will try to keep it weathervaned.., also by easing you shift from high gear back down to second gear -- powering back up)
<br>You stay on the corner until the boat is on a close reach heading then switch helm and sheet hands, cross over and go forward quickly to get the boat moving. Once the boat starts to regain speed, sheet back in and head up.
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<br>All of this is shown over and over in the video with all the full information. You are crazy if you don't get all of Rick's videos.
<br>Evermore,
<br>Edgar<br><br>