Hello to all ....can anyone offer me advice on how to come about successfully in my catamaran?
After years of sailing Fireballs and stuff like that I'm trying my hand at cats and so far found the sailing brilliant...far exeeding my expectations for speed even after the Fireball....
However I'm really stuggleing on one aspect and have been caught out several times.When coming about to change tack...the boat simply stops dead in the water and on a few occassions has actually gone in the backwards direction on me and I have had to reverse the tiller and ended up doing a three point turn !
I have tried a few things,one of them is backing the jib to steer it round.....seems a bit drastic....is this normal practice with catamarans?
any advice would be most welcome as I cant gybe all my turns !
Richard