It was a calm day on the water 8mph with gust to 15mph, a perfect day to try out new things.
Today it was heaving to. I tried the standard approach last spring. This is where the jib is backed after a tack and the rudder is turned in a attempt to tack back resulting a balanced hove to position. It didnt work well and we ended up fore reaching instead. Wasnt really sure what we did with the main nut i think there was tension and lifting airflow on it.
Today it started again with the backed jib again and the turned rudder, but this time i let the main go out over the lee side. As if going dead downwind.
That worked great. There where several good gusts and we just drifted along for about 5-10 minutes snacking on a lunch. I think this technique is called tbe rod stop. We did not bother to place a preventer on boom since it was behaved.
Afterwards we blew the jib and reset it, pulled in the main back, and centered the rudder. Back to sailing.
Pretty exciting.
Today it was heaving to. I tried the standard approach last spring. This is where the jib is backed after a tack and the rudder is turned in a attempt to tack back resulting a balanced hove to position. It didnt work well and we ended up fore reaching instead. Wasnt really sure what we did with the main nut i think there was tension and lifting airflow on it.
Today it started again with the backed jib again and the turned rudder, but this time i let the main go out over the lee side. As if going dead downwind.
That worked great. There where several good gusts and we just drifted along for about 5-10 minutes snacking on a lunch. I think this technique is called tbe rod stop. We did not bother to place a preventer on boom since it was behaved.
Afterwards we blew the jib and reset it, pulled in the main back, and centered the rudder. Back to sailing.
Pretty exciting.