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Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

18-06-2014, 15:46

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Heaving To

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Heaving To

+1 Eric. ( but then I would say that ! )

The problem is people try heaving to on relatively sane conditions. Then they extrapolate that to survival conditions. Doesn't work like that.

Think...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

18-06-2014, 11:23

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Heaving To

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Re: Heaving To

Not sure what " current knowledge " you ate reverting to. Certainly several major tomes don't agree with you.

My own personal experiences ate what drives my own views.

I think the difference...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

05-06-2014, 17:47

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Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Re: Heaving To

My issue with heaving to , is not the problem with simply stopping in a storm
The fact is that modern canoe hulled fin keeled vessels are very difficult to setup so that they remain hove to ,...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

05-06-2014, 00:39

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Heaving To

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Re: Heaving To

By " sail the boat " I mean simply not assuming you can heave to and sort of go below and hide under the security blanket. What I mean is you try to retain control over the boat by active methods. I...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

13-05-2014, 15:18

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Re: Heaving To

+1
Ive rabbited on about this before, but I have some experience ( hence YMMV). Personally I have found in storms verging on the survival ( whatever that means) its simply impossible to get the...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

13-05-2014, 14:17

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Re: Heaving To

Peoples personal experiences of survival storm techniques are often very varied, the ones that failed tend not to be around and the ones that worked often don't want to really talk about them.
...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

12-05-2014, 18:19

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Re: Heaving To

Absolutely. What's works at sea is a page 27 from book A with page 10 from book B , Etc, and a bit of bailing twine, ie seamanship

Dave

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Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

12-05-2014, 18:11

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Heaving To

Of the eight books I have that detail heavy weather tactics , I rate the Pardeys about middle, few books rate para anchors like they do, and today fewer have anything like the type of boat. Larry...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

12-05-2014, 18:09

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Heaving To

I have it , read it along with several others, personally I favour Dashews excellent book, I don't rate the Pardeys experience to modern monohulls at all.

Lack of strong forward attachment points...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

12-05-2014, 17:52

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Re: Heaving To

I defer to your greater wisdom re cats. Sailed a few, they give me the shivers. Not natural , my comments are exclusively for monohulls.

Dave

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Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

12-05-2014, 17:44

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Re: Heaving To

Sorry didn't mean gybing, I meant by immediately going hove to, personally I do t recommend any mob technique that uses gybing. Too much goes wrong with gybes

Dave

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Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

12-05-2014, 17:34

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Re: Heaving To

Personally in modem monohulls I don't favour heaving to as a storm tactic. I've never seen a modern boat that hove to reliably in a confused seas in survival conditions. . To me heaving to is a...

Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling

23-04-2014, 04:10

Replies: 130

Heaving To

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Posted By goboatingnow

Re: Heaving to

In modern boats, heaving to in fine to moderate weather and sea state is a very useful skill and eminently achievable.

In heavy weather, its much more difficult to achieve. Modern boats will...

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