A question-and-answer guide from North Sails covering the whole boat: crew weight and roles, rig controls, upwind and downwind trim, and boat handling. It explains why forestay length is the first rig setting, recommends cascade purchases over winches for the runners, and describes the barber-hauler and fine-tune genoa sheeting. Runner tension is presented as the main gear-change upwind, and the boat-handling section gives step-by-step tips for starts, tacks, gybes and drop-in-cockpit spinnaker takedowns.