Boat Transport Company

1. fall off 5 degrees and sheet out 10 cm to power up if not already moving fast
2. point high
3. rock torso to leeward (starboard) while pushing tiller to starboard
4. as boat heads to wind move weight aft
5. just as bow passes through wind, hike out hard to port and ease main 20-30 cm
6. when boat feels like it’s going to come on top of me, place aft (right foot) over the top of the hiking strap, reach up for starboard (windward) rail with tiller hand
7. pull my body across to starboard and forward using my tiller hand. stop turning when 5 degrees below close hauled
8. hike hard with only my forward (right) foot in the strap while sheeting in main with aft (left) hand. if I didn’t heel the boat enough, steer slightly up 5 degrees with forward (right) hand
9. once fully sheeted again and powered up, grasp tiller with sheet (left) hand and grab sheet with old tiller (right) hand

-Andrew

1) Fall off slightly to gain speed if necessary
2) Turning with the tiller burns off speed through the turn. Try to use weight to turn instead: So I actually raise my body closer in to the middle of the boat. It will heal more to leeward and then start turning upwind. Use tiller to help as necessary (more in light wind)
3) As the boat goes through straight upwind, I lean as far out on the formerly-windward side as possible; here’s where the roll really starts.
4) head-to-wind: the boom naturally falls over the boat. Now I’m leaning out on the downwind side
5) slightly ease the mainsheet. simultaneously use your (left) tiller hand to put the tiller ext. into the right hand (former sheet hand). Right hand now has both the sheet and the hiking stick
6) left hand is now completely free. I’m still on the bottom side which is drastically becoming further healed over — hesitating here puts you in the water.
7) left hand grabs either the rail on the interior of the gunwale, or the hiking strap. I use my arm to help lift me through the boat, my feet get into the strap on the other side and I start leaning way out to right the boat
my right hand (new tiller hand) now has both the sheet and the stick. This hand is concentrating on keeping the tiller straight so I don’t question-mark the turn (This is a big performance issue — if you are concentrating *too* hard on the rolling action, and not on the tiller, you’ll overturn way far off the wind and you’ll have to turn back upwind again — slow!)
9) the boat is now coming back down to level; the left hand (new sheet hand) grabs the sheet further in nearer to the block and pulls the sheet as hard as I can til I’m sheeted block-to-block… this is happening probably during the last 20-30 degrees of righting action.

-Aaron