Gybe From Port Tack To Starboard Tack

Gybe: Port Tack to Starboard Tack

Video-Style Animation

Wind is hitting the boat from astern. The sailboat gybes from a port tack to a starboard tack while the boom swings across.

Teaching Focus

Watch the stern pass through the wind first, then watch the boom cross from port side to starboard side.

Start: Port Tack
Finish: Starboard Tack
Boom on port side

Step 1

The boat begins on port tack with the wind coming from astern and the boom carried out on the port side.