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Good comments,
if anything doesn't work through a storm anchor (parachute) attached to the
stern with a 40'-50' line
or just a thick long line like a 3/4 docking line or mooring line and you
will see the difference
Marinated
S/V Thalia
Hamilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosalie B." <>
To: <>
Cc: "LIVE_ABOARD" <>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: Trying to "Heave To"
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 02:07:57 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> I have NO experience with the boat in question,
>>but I do have a suggestion.
>>
>> First step is always to reduce sail to the
>>minimum. "Drop all sail".
>>Second step is to RAISE MINIMUM MAIN SAIL.
>>NO JIB. NO STAYSAIL.
>>THIRD STEP is to set helm, IF YOU CAN.
>> FORTH step is to raise enough foresail to allow
>>course control....If desired.
>>
>> AT NO TIME is the foresail discussed in a
>>reasonable approach to this situation.
>>That is due to the REASONABLE concept that a
>>foresail may disrupt the situation...
>>
>> As long as you are in control of the sheets to
>>it, leave the AFT sail alone, (the mizzen) as it
>>should have little effect on the result...
>> AGAIN, just a recommendation,
>> Hell I have NO idea what I'm talking about...
>>Just regurgitating data...
>
> You said it. You have no idea what you are talking about.
>
> I don't have much of an idea either, although we have heaved to, just
> to practice. Most of the time we don't go out when the weather is
> such that we'd have to heave to.
>
> The idea of heaving to is to make the sails work against each other
> and the rudder so that the boat stops wiggling around or bashing into
> the waves.
>
>> When a sailboat is set in a heaving to position, she slows down
>> considerably
>>and keeps moving forward at about 1 to 2 kts, but with a significant
>>amount of
>>drift. The drift creates some turbulence on the water, and that
>>disturbance
>>decreases significantly the sea aggressiveness. The pounding felt when
>>going
>>upwind in strong seas almost miraculously disappears and the boat does not
>>heel
>>as much. This is MUCH more comfortable. It's a little bit like "parking"
>>the
>>boat on idle speed. The limitations of this technique are: a)you need
>>enough
>>sea room because of the important drift; and b) beyond a certain level of
>>wind,
>>other measures need to be taken. (In winds over 40 its better to drop all
>>sails
>>and power slowly straight into the wind, absent obstructions of course)
>
> I have no idea how one does this in a ketch, but I know it can be
> done.
>
> grandma Rosalie
>
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