Moderate-wind requires that you lean out over the water toward the back-windward side of the board to counteract the front-leeward pull of the sail.   Because of this need to counteract the sail’s pull, it’s desirable to use a harness.  Also, you should sail with your feet farther back on the board and adjust the centerboard with your foot while sailing to match the conditions and the maneuvers.

We start Part 2 with the moderate-wind sailing stance.   Along with the stance comes one of the two greatest innovations in windsurfing—the harness.  Next is the beachstart, which will save you many uphauls and ease you into the waterstart of Part 3.  We end with the fast tack and the flare gybe:  two methods of turning that will tremendously increase your fun-factor and turn you into a solid intermediate sailor.

For graduates of Part 1, there is some good news and some bad news.   The bad news is, your initiation is not over.  Actually, it’s never over.   Every time you try a new technique, or bump your head against the next plateau, you experience another initiation.  The good news is, every initiation from now on is a lot more fun than learning how to get on the board, grab the uphaul, stand, haul up the sail. . . .

Each initiation is a learning process like the thousands in life you’ve already experienced.  During this process you learn things like:   bending your front arm during a tack stalls the board, or sheeting-out while hooked-in causes a swim in the best case or a ripped sail in the worst case.

When trying these techniques, remember the Windsurfing Learning Process: Picture, Visualize, Practice, Try, Analyze (described in Necessary Knowledge, Book 2).  If you approach a new technique using this system, mastery will arrive more quickly and easily.

It’s also important to obey the HLOWs (Hazen's Laws of Windsurfing, Book);  virtually every misfortune in windsurfing results from violating one or more of them.  To avoid being plucked off the board and plopped in the water, you should:

• Be assertive.
• Use technique, not strength.
• Be limber.
• Stand straight.
• Sheet-in.
• Keep front arm straight.

If you breezed by the above list, I snuck in another HLOW:  Be limber.  What does that mean?  Well, let me first tell you what it doesn’t mean.  Being limber does not mean tensing your muscles as you would, for example, when peering over the precipice of the steepest ski trail you’ve ever encountered.  Being limber also does not mean tensing your brain muscle as you would, for example, when trapped in a traffic-jam on your way to a job interview, or when opening an exam book and realizing that you should have studied harder.

Being physically loose means not tightening your muscles.  For example, after windsurfing, have you ever experienced painful feet?  This results from continually clenching your toes, because you were trying to grip the board by digging your toenails into the deck, like a bird gripping a branch.  Or maybe you’ve experienced sore arms because you were sailing in a half chin up, rather than relaxing your arms, loosening your muscles, and hanging from the boom.  So, command your muscles and mind to be limber and loose.  And the best way to relax your muscles is by starting with your feet and working your way upward.