Do you mean snuffer?Nobody seems to have mentioned a suffer sock. Doesn't everyone use one now-a-days?
Do you mean snuffer?Nobody seems to have mentioned a suffer sock. Doesn't everyone use one now-a-days?
Yes... [grumbling...] Added the "N" via edit.Do you mean snuffer?
At the end of the day you can (and should) do anything to stay clear if you are not ROW. Luffing the sail is a very specific thing here in this case, and probably not even the best thing to do. My original objection was to your posting it as a general solution to a question posed about how to deal with excess pressure in a kite.True, but there's not much else you can do if some racing newbie on stb-tack, or coming on to one, going up wind decides to cross your line. Or, some aggressive competitor might do it just to try to throw you off your game for spite.
Really?? ;^)One should not be allowing the boat to get into a position of a ROW discussion when flying a kite.
;^)Just because the guy in the blue boat is pushing it doesn't make it ok.
Well, there's this: "BREEZE ON: Heavy Air Downwind Symmetric Spinnaker Sailing"My original objection was to your posting it as a general solution to a question posed about how to deal with excess pressure in a kite.
Honestly, you have to go look this stuff up on the internet???? ;^)Well, there's this: "BREEZE ON: Heavy Air Downwind Symmetric Spinnaker Sailing"
http://www.sail1design.com/breeze-heavy-air-downwind-symmetric-spinnaker-sailing/
Boat is rounding up:
If the boats roll to leeward, or a big blast starts to lay the boat over then the action to prevent this starts from the back of the boat:
1) Skipper pumps the helm to reattach flow on the rudder.
2) Trimmer eases the spinnaker sheet out – goes with a bigger curl in the luff to depower the sail.
3) Bow dumps the vang to depower the mainsail – keep calling the puffs!
4) Trimmer dumps the spinnaker sheet completely.
Note: Don’t dump the guy off, as the spinnaker will blow out to leeward and have 5 times the heeling moment in it!
5) To recover – pump the helm and bear the boat off to a manageable broad reach heading, retrim the spinnaker sheet and then retrim the vang – off you go again. If you are pinned over – consider blowing the spin halyard, this very often rights the boat on a bad knockdown.
before you start to dig this hole of yours.easing the spinnaker sheet to spill air can also help flatten or slow the boat in a puff.
Well hang on. You're not seemingly aware of it, but there IS a general solution to overpowering when a kite is up.It's hard to decide whether something is or is not a "general solution" to a question until one determines what is generally done. If we look around enough it might be discovered that the "general solution(s)" to being overpowered under spinnaker might include all three suggestions: bearing away, easing, and your practice (?) of over sheeting. Obviously, if the boat will not bear away a sheet somewhere probably must be eased or blown. So, yeah--perhaps it is the last thing to do b/f wiping out.
Step 1: That's totally correct. Breeze builds, TURN DOWN. Every driver knows this.Normally (upwind) we are used to heading up to luff the sails and reduce pressure, but in this instance (downwind), you turn down and accelerate. Isn't that right, Jackdaw?
LOL Indeed! ;^)I hope all of this is helping the OP with his question on the arcane nature of "the spinnaker."
In the last 5 years in probably 300 races, I have not been protested. There have been a dozen or so cases were a boat broke a rule and did not do turns and I so protested. Won 100% of these. Know the rules, sail by the rules.
Why not?never fly a spinnaker unless the main sail is also raised.