I found this video while looking around on You Tube the other day and thought I would pass it along. My wife and I learned how to do this maneuver last summer, but this video demonstrates how to do it better I think. We did it the way the books explain it, at least I thought so. Our procedure was to head up until our sailboat stopped, then backwind the jib, adjust the main sail and finally adjust the tiller. The video shows a more eloquent method which I am excited to try this spring. “Heaving to” was one of the most helpful sailing skills we learned last summer. Prior to that, when we wanted to take a break for lunch we would usually sail over to a bay or behind a point out of the wind and toss out the “lunch hook.” Fine on smaller lakes, but impractical when on a large body of water where it might take an hour or more to get to a spot suitable for anchoring. Besides, who wants to hassle with an anchor if you don’t have to.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbjwP6F_N9s