Tacking

Bring the boat close-hauled (sail just inside the leeward stern corner, boat aimed at 45° to the wind)
Make sure everyone is ready
- Helm: "Ready about!" [some say "Prepare to tack."]
- Crew: "Ready!"
- Helm: "Hard a-lee!" [some say, "Helm's a-lee" or "Tacking"].
Look — over shoulder for obstacles and to choose Landmark at 90°
Pull — the main sheet even tighter onto the boat's center line. (Boat will "head up" a little, as the sail starts to help you turn the boat.)
Turn — holding the rope (main sheet) in a forward hand, tiller in aft hand.
- Step forward with back foot, stand and push tiller to leeward (toward boom).
- As boom crosses overhead:
  - step a little backward with front foot so you are standing facing forward
  - pull rope along your hip, and around to behind your back until you can simultaneously grab both the rope and the tiller. Hold both.
- Release tiller from other hand.
- Reach foward to grab the rope near the sheet block. Hold (new foward hand).
- Release the rope from the hand on the tiller.
- Sit down on the new side
- As the heading of the boat approaches the Landmark and the sail starts to fill, bring the tiller back to the center line.