"Storm Tactics"
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Cheers, Bob s/y X SAIL R 8
re Wind Driven Spray
BobW - re some solution to protection from wind driven spray - several years ago Latitude 38 (one of my favorite magazines, and it's free! had a short article with a picture of a model wearing a helmet with a visor that someone was marketing to deal with this. It looked somewhat like a motorcycle helmet. The picture really caught my attention because the model was in true Lat 38 fashion... all she wore was the helmet! re storm winds and waves: One thing I learned about the storm we somewhat avoided was the winds would come from more than one direction. It would blow really fierce from one direction for a while and then would change to another direction for a bit. One boat that was anchored out, a Sea Bird (west coast BC manufacturer) heavy displacement cut-away keel, boat, said they would be bow to the waves and wind and then the wind would change 90-degrees and turn the boat beam-to the waves. If this happened while 'out there' it could cause problems. With regard to wind power and rigging, it doesn't seem to take a lot of wind to get a boat starting to heel over. One boat I crewed on was a C&C 36 and, I wasn't crewing that day, they were flying the chute. A gust hit them from a wrong angle and knocked the boat on it's beam ends and the spreaders were in the water (they said). This tells me that the rigging should withstand a boat healing over pretty good and the further the boat heals the less frontal area there is to the wind. Trouble comes in bunches: make sure the roller furler is properly secured and that the jib doesn't unfurl!
BobW - re some solution to protection from wind driven spray - several years ago Latitude 38 (one of my favorite magazines, and it's free! had a short article with a picture of a model wearing a helmet with a visor that someone was marketing to deal with this. It looked somewhat like a motorcycle helmet. The picture really caught my attention because the model was in true Lat 38 fashion... all she wore was the helmet! re storm winds and waves: One thing I learned about the storm we somewhat avoided was the winds would come from more than one direction. It would blow really fierce from one direction for a while and then would change to another direction for a bit. One boat that was anchored out, a Sea Bird (west coast BC manufacturer) heavy displacement cut-away keel, boat, said they would be bow to the waves and wind and then the wind would change 90-degrees and turn the boat beam-to the waves. If this happened while 'out there' it could cause problems. With regard to wind power and rigging, it doesn't seem to take a lot of wind to get a boat starting to heel over. One boat I crewed on was a C&C 36 and, I wasn't crewing that day, they were flying the chute. A gust hit them from a wrong angle and knocked the boat on it's beam ends and the spreaders were in the water (they said). This tells me that the rigging should withstand a boat healing over pretty good and the further the boat heals the less frontal area there is to the wind. Trouble comes in bunches: make sure the roller furler is properly secured and that the jib doesn't unfurl!
I agree
No boat should ever have the roller-furling line secured by a jam or vee cleat..like mine did. in "only" about 35 knots, the jib came unfurled so violently that it damaged my forestay! I got rid of that cleat.
No boat should ever have the roller-furling line secured by a jam or vee cleat..like mine did. in "only" about 35 knots, the jib came unfurled so violently that it damaged my forestay! I got rid of that cleat.
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