If this does not work, but results in sternway, shove the tiller clear over to the opposite side. |
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You do not want to make headway or sternway but simply pivot with a continuous motion. |
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Be sure that the rudder is amidships, or else aimed to port if the boat starts making sternway. |
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Try dropping the anchor while simultaneously backing down under power, making sternway, to see how the boat handles. |
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