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Re: lv-ab: Trying to "Heave To"
From: Yanni Nikopoulos
Date: 2005 Oct 9, 08:24 -0400
From: Yanni Nikopoulos
Date: 2005 Oct 9, 08:24 -0400
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 > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > || The Live-Aboard List : send a "subscribe" or "" request > || > || in body of message to: live-aboard-request@crux.astro.utoronto.ca > || > >