Handling Heel in a Catalina 22 Swing Keel

[Grotto]

This
is all true. I have my wife take basic sailing 101 with me no where near that boat / marina / ocean

 

[EditorC22NSA]

Judy B...with your permission, could I please use your excellent write-up in the 2019 Catalina 22 Technical Manual Update...with proper/full credit to you?

Thanks,

Rich Fox
Editor, C22NSA

 

[DrJudyB]

Judy B...with your permission, could I please use your excellent write-up in the 2019 Catalina 22 Technical Manual Update...with proper/full credit to you?

Thanks,

Rich Fox
Editor, C22NSA

Hi Rich,

You're welcome to use it. But it could use some editing to eliminate redundancy and remove ambiguity. It's not very polished. Would you be willing to polish it before you publish it?

Judy B

 

[EditorC22NSA]

Hi Rich,

You're welcome to use it. But it could use some editing to eliminate redundancy and remove ambiguity. It's not very polished. Would you be willing to polish it before you publish it?

Judy B

Judy-
Absolutely...glad to "polish" it up! thank you.
-Rich

 

[Mormandeus]

I find that in gusty conditions a smaller headsail helps a lot. When the wind gusts with a larger headsail that over laps main, the slot powers up and gives a good heeling moment. The smaller jib mediates the problem. A reefed main will do the same.

 

[Jacktar]

Just a thought, quit adjusting the boat and replace the woman.

 

[greg_m]

Just a thought, quit adjusting the boat and replace the woman.

Now that is a thought....

 

[greg_m]

My experience with women, while statistically insignificant, is remarkably consistent in these two phenomena:

1) She (meaning any woman that I've had sex with) will not accept instruction from me unless I have amply demonstrated my expertise. In this example, when I have her take the tiller, she will be equally or more nervous, if I have not previously proven that I have 100% control of the boat, 100% of the time. Based on the fact that the boat has heeled while I was steering has already convinced her that: a) I don't know how to control the boat 100%, or b) I do know how to control the boat 100% and I am an a-hole for tipping the boat to the point where she got afraid.

2) She will accept instruction from some random bloke that she had not ever even seen before, even if it is the exact same instruction that she rejected when I offered it. Conversely, everybody (including women) thinks that I am a great teacher, except whichever woman I happen to be romantically involved with. It's not just me; I have noticed this phenomenon in all romantic couples who have passed through my corner of the time-space continuum. I have no idea why it's true; I've just learned to accept it.

The moral of the story is: If you want to have fun sailing with a woman, have other people teach her how to sail.

Man... ditto for teaching to drive! Someone else's car and someone else teaching!! I don't however believe romance plays a real part... just maybe familiarity. You'll understand what I mean if you have a daughter.

 

[Will Gilmore]

just maybe familiarity.

That's it exactly!

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[rpludwig]

Just a thought, quit adjusting the boat and replace the woman.

LOL, it took 4 pages of posts to get to the real crux of the matter!

 

[Gene Neill]

Man... ditto for teaching to drive! Someone else's car and someone else teaching!! I don't however believe romance plays a real part... just maybe familiarity. You'll understand what I mean if you have a daughter.

Second that. I'm a firearms expert, but I paid good money for my daughter to take pistol classes elsewhere, because I KNEW she would resist, or disregard altogether, a large percentage of whatever I told her.

"Oh, that's just Dad, what does he know."

 

[Jacktar]

Motto there is fail fail fail until you succeed in reaching the level of incompetence that makes your family comfortable.