A lot of people for better or for worse do call it tacking down
wind, but I agree with you.

"The_navigator©" wrote in message
...
No, it's faster to gybe downwind.

Cheers MC

Gerard Weatherby wrote:
There's an article on sailnet (

http://www.sailnet.com/collections/a...2%20%20&tfr=fp
or http://tinyurl.com/h9z6 ) which claims it's faster to tack downwind
on broad
reaches instead of running straight downwind. (Assuming you want to get
dead
downwind.) Have those of you who sail found this to be true? Let's
assume
there's no spinnaker since I don't have one.

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