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Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 14-05-2013, 13:51
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Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

Sorry, the article is specifically written for an American boating audience - ft and kts. So, a 36' waterline might aim for 6kts (perhaps just a bit more with a 'performance hull').
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 07-05-2013, 05:52
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

I have seen it done . . . but its not something to be messing around with in storm conditions, and more difficult with full lower battens (probably have to pull at least one out), and the 'bunt' of...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 07-05-2013, 04:45
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

I find four advantages:

First, and the primary reason a trysail is required by the offshore special regulations, is if you break the boom your mainsail is screwed, while you can still fly the...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 07-05-2013, 04:26
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

Just a couple thoughts on trisails . . . .

1. We carry a trysail and have a separate track (which runs down to the deck so we can work on it sitting down rather than standing up) for it, but we...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 06-05-2013, 14:19
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

Nice. Thanks. I note two things that caught my eye:

1. Regarding breaking waves, it offers this comment: "In extreme cases the crest falls freely into the trough (plunging). In all cases a...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 06-05-2013, 05:33
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

Geek alert . . . only read this if you are interested in statistical details of waves :)

1. How frequent are waves greater than 2x significant height? Lets assume a Rayleigh distribution for a...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 05-05-2013, 15:51
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

Agreed. I believe the latest data suggests the tail of the distribution is actually quite a bit fatter than the Rayleigh distribution suggests. I have not looked at this in a couple years . . . are...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 05-05-2013, 06:52
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

^^

Wave size distribution is a critical piece of all this (and something I should add to my article).


The distribution of waves sizes is quite predictable (Rayleigh distribution for anyone...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 05-05-2013, 03:55
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

^^

There are three challenges with using the met definitions to discuss 'storm tactics':

#1 is that waves are the primary driver of storm tactics, while the met definitions are mostly about...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 04-05-2013, 08:48
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

We actually sailed into port Davie in a force 9. There is an island - called something like 'break sea island' - that you can whip around and the seas lay down before you have to deal with the actual...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 03-05-2013, 05:51
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

Probably Rescue Tape (https://www.rescuetape.com/) or its equivalent.
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 26-04-2013, 09:40
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

Pelagic seems to be in your camp on this also.

I will have to give it some further thought.

We personally are a bit spoiled, because of our structural hard dodger, allows us to be "out and...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 26-04-2013, 09:07
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

I have had ours out in 'heavy weather' (as an experiment), but not yet in a big breaking waves a 'survival storm' (I do try to avoid those :) )

Personally, I prefer to be going a bit faster when...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 26-04-2013, 05:34
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

That's terrific. I can then only offer two suggestions:

1. Do multiple real world deployments/practices with the technique, in say 30kts, before you are forced to use it a storm. There are a...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 26-04-2013, 05:20
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

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Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 25-04-2013, 07:04
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

One comment I have not made . . . is that for relatively inexperienced people seasickness is a big underlying (sort of co-equal with fatigue) cause of bad decisions (like abandoning ship). The stress...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 25-04-2013, 05:15
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

mmmm . . . . it already does. See the last two sentences in common mistake #3.

I completely agree with this point, and perhaps it deserves more space, but I have packed a lot of thoughts into...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 24-04-2013, 17:20
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

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Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 24-04-2013, 05:52
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

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Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 23-04-2013, 15:52
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

That's an excellent question - I don't think I have ever seen it discussed. I will have to think about it a bit more, but my immediate reaction is

When your eyes are night adapted you can see...
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 23-04-2013, 09:33
Replies: 368
Views: 35,649
Posted By estarzinger
Re: Storm Sailing Advice

I am just writing an article on this . . . see survival sailing (https://www.bethandevans.com/pdf/survivalsailing.pdf)

It's a working draft - content is all there but it has not had its clean up...
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