Steer a Sailboat Easier with This Magic Sailing Tip!

Steer a sailing course in heavy sailing weather can be a tough challenge for sailing crews. Your sailboat wants to "round up" into the wind. And it can take a lot of "white knuckle" steering to keep the sailing course. Use this secret sailing tip to make steering a sailboat easier and more fun! Captain John with 25+ years of experience shows you the no-nonsense cruising skills you need for safer sailing worldwide. Visit his website at https://www.skippertips.com and sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how you can gain instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, FREE e-Books and much more!

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Steer a sailing course in heavy sailing weather can be a tough challenge for sailing crews. Your sailboat wants to "round up" into the wind. And it can take a lot of "white knuckle" steering to keep the sailing course. Use this secret sailing tip to make steering a sailboat easier and more fun! Captain John with 25+ years of experience shows you the no-nonsense cruising skills you need for safer sailing worldwide. Visit his website at https://www.skippertips.com and sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how you can gain instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, FREE e-Books and much more!

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speckspeck
speckspeck - 7 years ago
i DON'T SEE what is so difficult to understand about this, yes you are sailing a longer time, so what, the point is to deal with the excess working fatigue of trying to stay perfect and staight.
It would be hard to screw this up and find yourself badly off course, either. Experiment and you might see.
Ray Konold
Ray Konold - 8 years ago
Captain John,
On the first interval, do hold course for half the time to keep your original line of course in the center of your intervals? Say you pick a ten minute interval, the first s turn would only be five minutes?
Thank you in advance,
Ray
Ray Konold
Ray Konold - 8 years ago
Thank you.
Captain John's Skipper Tips
Captain John's Skipper Tips - 8 years ago
+Ray Konold Ray that should work. This is really a rough system in any type of weather. The point of the video is that steering a sailboat will never be about holding a perfect course. New crew sometimes get locked into this mindset and that can cause excessive fatigue. It's much more important to average the course, keep track of the visual picture both by nautical and electronic chart (both are critical, no matter what you read), and on long legs where your destination lies to windward, take advantage of lifts to keep working upwind.
tincoffin
tincoffin - 10 years ago
@tonyhr Yes As he changes course he will have to adjust the sail and as presumably he is shorthanded this is difficult. He will also be sailing a longer course by zig -zagging so taking more time. Hard to see how this really helps.

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