It’s important to remember that the run doesn’t begin when you round the windward mark; it begins as you approach the mark. Often an upwind leg isn’t square. You find you sail much more time on one tack than another. This situation means that downwind, one tack will be a much tighter angle than the other and that the jibe will take you down the rhomb line at a tight, fast angle. This boat timed her tacks upwind and noticed that she sailed on starboard more than port. Therefore the run downwind will be on port tack.

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