Mark Rounding
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Skipper’s Corner | Tactics
By Dave Acree
When you come out of a turn of a windward mark and a good number of the fleet are still behind you, your big effort should be getting and keeping clear wind in your sails. As the figure shows, you will be going some what downwind from the mark and all of the boats behind you will be rounding the mark and dump a poor wind blanket at you.
When you come out of a turn of a windward mark and a good number of the fleet are still behind you, your big effort should be getting and keeping clear wind in your sails. As the figure shows, you will be going some what downwind from the mark and all of the boats behind you will be rounding the mark and dump a poor wind blanket at you.