"Walt" wrote

Capt. JG wrote:

Ummm... necessary? No. Easy.. yes. Leave the jib, tack, ease the main,
slowly put the helm back, you're done. What do you do?

Pull the windward jib sheet until the jib is backwinded, cleat it off.
Push the helm over.

Ok, I can see a problem with this approach if you're flying a 150% genoa.
Or even if you're using a smaller one and it's blowing. A difference
between dinghy sailing vs. keelboat.

//Walt

A slow tack with the jib backed will slow the boat down
so it doesn't want to tack back over.