Learn to turn a sailboat around facing the wind

Coming About

Coming about or tacking is turning your boat into and through the wind. Play this video demo of our CD and have a short lesson on turning a sailboat.

Learning to Come About (Turning your boat around facing the wind) is one of many, many lessons in this section. You wil also learn how to jibe a sailboat (Turning your boat with the wind behind you) Other topics are Windy Theory, Sailing Theory, Points of Sail, Capsizing, Rescuing, Anchoring, Leaving and Approaching Docks and Moorings...just to name a few!

Learn to Sail! with Multimedia! Vol I and II is an Interactive Sailing Training Program on CD/DVD. Developed and published by Little Pines Multimedia, it is chock full of narration, animations and video clips demonstrating all aspects of sailing, such as wind theory, the points of sail, how to predict the weather, and tie nautical knots. The program runs over 500 megabytes, fully utilizing the CD/DVD media.