Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Let's Follow a Sailboat to the windward mark at Big Daddy 2012

[[posterous-content:pid___0]]Going upwind[[posterous-content:pid___1]][[posterous-content:pid___2]][[posterous-content:pid___3]]Getting ready to tack toward toward the mark (eg 'turn' toward the mark)[[posterous-content:pid___4]]As the boat is confident they will make the mark on that tack, they are getting their pole up and getting ready to set their spinnaker[[posterous-content:pid___5]]by the mark they are already nearly ready to set the spinnaker[[posterous-content:pid___6]]hoisting![[posterous-content:pid___7]]It is up![[posterous-content:pid___8]]Taking their jib down now that the spinnaker is up and flying[[posterous-content:pid___9]]And downwind they go. Next stop the leeward mark where everything happens in reverse order...

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