As most of you are aware Missus and me are new to sailing. While she is willing to have a go at anything she does suffer from a crook
hand and a crook shoulder so pulling on ropes is detrimental to her. I'll do the rope work but I have a problem in knowing exactly
how to successfully tack on my own. I'm not a youngster so jumping around trying to cope with a boat that's suddenly out of control
is not for me.
All I know about tacking is to move the bow across the breeze until the wind takes the headsail across, release the sheet and pull the
other sheet on. My boat is a 28 footer and has a tiller and the winches are NOT self-tailing.
So it seems to me I need a couple more arms and hands unless there is a technique I can use. So single handers, how do you do it.??.