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Alex Schulte explains the basics of sailing and shows how to do upwind sailing.

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Alex Schulte explains the basics of sailing and shows how to do upwind sailing.

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How To Do Upwind Sailing

Alex Schulte: Hi, I am Alex Schulte with the Washington Sailing Marina's Summer Sailing School and I am teaching you how to sail. This is sailing upwind. As I said before, you can't sail towards the wind or anywhere between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. In order to get upwind though you have to do something called tacking upwind. The way you do this is you put yourself on a close-hauled course towards 2 o'clock or 10 o'clock, stay on this course for a while and then tack and put yourself on the other close-hauled course. You keep tacking upwind in order to work your way to an upwind area. While tacking upwind if you do not complete a tack you will be stuck in irons. This is when the sail is flapping over your head and you are actually moving backwards. In order to get out of irons you will push your main sail using your boom all the way to one side, this will make your boat go backwards. Next you'll point your tiller away from the sail which will make your boat turn backwards. When you are no longer in irons you can easily sail across to the other side, so it fills with wind and put your tiller straight. Now you can sail away. That was sailing upwind, next is capsize recovery and how to avoid capsize.

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Alex Schulte: Hi, I am Alex Schulte with the Washington Sailing Marina's Summer Sailing School and I am teaching you how to sail. This is sailing upwind. As I said before, you can't sail towards the wind or anywhere between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. In order to get upwind though you have to do something called tacking upwind. The way you do this is you put yourself on a close-hauled course towards 2 o'clock or 10 o'clock, stay on this course for a while and then tack and put yourself on the other close-hauled course.

You keep tacking upwind in order to work your way to an upwind area. While tacking upwind if you do not complete a tack you will be stuck in irons. This is when the sail is flapping over your head and you are actually moving backwards. In order to get out of irons you will push your main sail using your boom all the way to one side, this will make your boat go backwards. Next you'll point your tiller away from the sail which will make your boat turn backwards. When you are no longer in irons you can easily sail across to the other side, so it fills with wind and put your tiller straight. Now you can sail away. That was sailing upwind, next is capsize recovery and how to avoid capsize.

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