[Rhodes22-list] Heave-To

[Wallace Buck]

Robert,

That is what I am talking about.

Wally


>From: Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Heave-To
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:31:10 -0500
>
>I also have found that heaving to is a handy technique
>for buying time away from the tiller.
>
>Although I have not used that technique in 40 kt winds,
>I'd be inclined to use it up until things didn't feel right.
>Beyond that point, out comes the (sea) anchor.
>
>One thing to think about -- a furling headsail is a godsend
>up to the point where it decides to unfurl -- uncontrollably --
>in a very high wind.  At some point I'd either completely
>remove or completely furl and lash down the genoa and go to
>a hanked-on storm jib on a solent stay -- with a down-haul.
>Given time, and knowing that weather was on the way, I'd
>deploy a storm jib at the same time as I went to a second
>reef in the main.
>
>/Bob Skinner
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