Since you are not racing, why not do the fun and easy thing, go for a gybe instead of a tack? You just bear off, ease the main way out, get some speed and complete the turn, flip the jib over, trim in the main and off you go.

If you must tack, make sure you keep the tiller hard over until the bows are way off the wind and the main is eased out quite a bit, get the jib over and in asap to help get the bows down, don't trim in the main until you have some speed to steer with or it will round right back up and you will be parked again, but when that happens, you just reverse the rudders so the sterns go the other way, then again, ease the main and get some speed up on the new tack before you trim it in.


Blade F16
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