Sailing Downwind And Gybing; Using The Gennaker - LDC Racing Saliboats RS FEVA Owner's Manual

5.5 Sailing Downwind and Gybing

When sailing downwind, both sails should be let out as far as possible.
handed sailors should adopt a relaxing, reclined pose astride the
leaning back against the side deck. To gybe, pull the
boat starts to turn, step across the
completed the turn, bring the
new side, with the
come across until you have nearly completed the gybe, so it often pays to give the
mainsheet a tweak to encourage the
come! Once you are settled, swap the
new hands.
If you are inexperienced in using a
excursion. A gennaker
healthy degree of respect!
For your first hoist
coming over the helm‟s left shoulder. The
astride the daggerboard
halyard from the right-hand
cockpit
tiller back into the centre before sitting down on the
tiller extension behind your back. Often, the

5.6 Using the Gennaker

gennaker,
nearly doubles your sail area, and should be treated with a
you should be sailing
case, and hoist
halyard block
tiller
facing forward. Once the boat has
boom over at the moment that you want it to
mainsheet and the
choose a fairly quiet day for you first
downwind on a
crew should sit in the centre of the boat,
the gennaker by pulling the
(see picture 5.1).
Single-
thwart area,
towards you and, as the
boom will not want to
tiller extension into the
broad reach, with the wind
gennaker