Sailing on to a mooring wind-across-tide
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Make your approach from down-tide and slightly downwind. This way, you can control the boat’s speed by easing the mainsail when you want to slow down and sheeting in should you need to gain speed.
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Even with the most careful calculated approach you can experience a gust or a wind shift that drives you forward just when you want to slow down, so you back the mainsail to act as a break.
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Before going forward to secure the mooring, despite the tide, the boat now swings more-or-less head-to-wind. A headsail would be in the crew’s way.
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