Can red border cards be chosen or you can only play them as a replacement of a regular card when ship’s attitude to the wind is taken aback?

I explain myself a little bit more. This is the situation what concerns me:

Turn 1: Player plays a sharp turn and ends up with his ship taken aback – say wind comes straight from the front part of the base.
Turn 2: planned maneuver was a ‘straight’ (#5) so it’s replaced it for the ‘straight’ card with red border, ship moves ahead (using the one sandglass line)
Turn 3: … now what? Player knows the ship will still be ‘taken aback’ with wind coming straight from the front of the base…. Should the captain play a ‘straight-red-card’ again? Or can he play a red-card with a turn to either side (using the second-sandglass maneuver) – maneuvering to change the ship into a better wind’s attitude?
Note that if the player cannot plan a ‘red-turn’ the ship will be taken aback forever – unless wind changes.