Category: Sail handling and trimming

One of the most dangerous situations aboard a sailboat is when an unintentional jibe of the mainsail occurs. In this new chapter of the online book “Sail Handling and Trimming,” we’ll look at some simple considerations regarding the use of the preventer on a cruising sailboat, which can help improve safety on board.

In this chapter of the online book “Sail Handling” we will describe the control elements of the main sail: backstay tension, Cunningham, halyard, leech line, topping lift, traveler, and boom vang; and their use under various wind conditions.

In this fifth chapter of the online book “Sail handling and trimming” we will see, in a practical and simple way, how to use the telltales for trimming the genoa (or jib) along with its control elements (sheet tension, position of the sheet car, stay tension and halyard tension).

New chapter of the online book “Sail handling and trimming” in which we will see the control elements of the headsails (the tension of the forestay, the halyard, the position of the sheet traveler, and the tension of the sheet) and how to trim them in different wind conditions.

In this new chapter of the on-line book ‘Sail handling and trimming’ we are going to remember the concepts of ‘real wind’ and ‘apparent wind’, the designation of the courses at which a sailboat sails, and some basic considerations on how to sail a sailboat in relation to the wind.