heaving to?
If you are sliding sideways and putting your beam to the waves and weather and producing a slick between the boat and the waves isn't that called 'lying a hull'?
Heaving to is a back winded jib, slightly slackened main, helm lashed to leeward. In this position your boat will still be going forward at a knot or two and taking the wind and seas on the windward side of the bow. Your boat will pull up into the wind with the power from your mainsail and then not be able to sail through the eye of the wind because of the backed jib, fall off the wind until the main fills again...and you'll keep sailing in this zig-zag pattern at slow speeds. I think you guys are talking about lying a hull, a different storm tactic than heaving to.
If you are sliding sideways and putting your beam to the waves and weather and producing a slick between the boat and the waves isn't that called 'lying a hull'?
Heaving to is a back winded jib, slightly slackened main, helm lashed to leeward. In this position your boat will still be going forward at a knot or two and taking the wind and seas on the windward side of the bow. Your boat will pull up into the wind with the power from your mainsail and then not be able to sail through the eye of the wind because of the backed jib, fall off the wind until the main fills again...and you'll keep sailing in this zig-zag pattern at slow speeds. I think you guys are talking about lying a hull, a different storm tactic than heaving to.
