What troubles me with all this...how can I tell with certainty what point of sail I am on with respect to the true wind at a given moment in time? On a beach cat with no electronic wind instrumentation to calculate true wind direction, I always have to guesstimate where true wind is before I can state "I'm broad or beam reaching". Furthermore, what good does it do me to know this true wind direction and "Official" point of sail...when I will still set my sails & steer my boat to apparent.

Mike.