How to sail - How to gybe a single person sailboat (turning away from the wind)

Jump to chapters Introduction 0:00 Land drill 1:11 Tacking afloat 2:31 Common mistakes 5:04 Key learning points 6:16 How to gybe a single handed sailboat. Here we show a Laser but the same principles apply to many other types of boat. Gybing is the manoeuvre where the boat turns when you re sailing away from where the wind is blowing from.