Berny,

Given that situation you can either sheet out to slow down or head up a little to give yourself room to jibe. You are pretty much beat at that point anyway and you're better off to just stay clean and pray the other guy makes some mistake (like overstand).

Sail your game, do what makes sense to you and let everyone else make the mistakes...that's my motto (taught to me by Mr. Nigel Pitt). I've not been able to apply it terribly well on the real water yet though. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />