Setting the main singlehanded
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- Warren S
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- Location: s/v Morveren
Cape Dory 270 Hull #5
Washington, NC
Given the sea room, I heave to
I'm sure this will seem like a lot of work to some, but putting up 1/3 of the jenny and heaving to gives me all the time in the world to raise the main regardless of how hard it's blowing. I use a safety harness when it's particularly fresh out there.
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- Joe Myerson
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- Location: s/v Creme Brulee, CD 25D, Hull #80, Squeteague Harbor, MA
Re: Given the sea room, I heave to
Warren,Warren S wrote:I'm sure this will seem like a lot of work to some, but putting up 1/3 of the jenny and heaving to gives me all the time in the world to raise the main regardless of how hard it's blowing. I use a safety harness when it's particularly fresh out there.
I heave-to whenever I reef my main, but I never thought about doing it to raise the main in the first place. Unfurling the genny first seems kind of counter-intuitive at first, but it makes sense.
Thanks for the tip,
--Joe
Former Commodore, CDSOA
Former Captain, Northeast Fleet
S/V Crème Brûlée, CD 25D, Hull # 80
"What a greate matter it is to saile a shyppe or goe to sea."
--Capt. John Smith, 1627
Former Captain, Northeast Fleet
S/V Crème Brûlée, CD 25D, Hull # 80
"What a greate matter it is to saile a shyppe or goe to sea."
--Capt. John Smith, 1627
- Warren S
- Posts: 254
- Joined: Jul 27th, '06, 21:22
- Location: s/v Morveren
Cape Dory 270 Hull #5
Washington, NC
I completely agree Joe
When I have crew to keep her headed into the wind under power (she just falls off too easily when locking the tiller), I always raise the main first.
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"Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know." -Donald Hamilton