Your Penalty Turn Needs a Tack AND a Gybe (RRS 44.2)

Name: Your Penalty Turn Needs a Tack AND a Gybe (RRS 44.2)
Uploaded: 2026-09-06T12:00:00+12:00
Duration: 26 s
Description: Through dead downwind but never through head to wind — that's a gybe, not a turn.

Through dead downwind but never through head to wind — that's a gybe, not a turn.

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