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Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 13-05-2014, 15:09
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Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving To

@ brownoarsman: Good onyer, mate, thanks for that.

Whether or not my suggestions work for you, you and Jammer will (I suspect) long continue to learn about how to predict the detailed response of...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 13-05-2014, 13:24
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving To

Great questions, thanks.

re Q1: It is NOT the intention to tack and put the main aback.

I have experimented with doing so (in sheltered waters, in a small, nimble swing keeler, where the...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 13-05-2014, 04:10
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving To

BTW, Jammer, the illusion of the wind backing is an artefact of slowing or stopping.

(or veering, depending which tack you're on: basically, a "freeing" shift, rather than a header)

It's the...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 13-05-2014, 04:08
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving To

A couple of thoughts Jammer, and I really appreciate you exploring this and sharing your thoughts.

Firstly, I'm not sure where I said "deeply reefed" - are you sure it was me?

Quite the...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 12-05-2014, 22:03
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving To

Brilliant, Jammer, thanks very much indeed for giving it a go and reporting back.

Couple of clarifications please:

1) I presume from what you say about the clew moving laterally, that it was...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 07-05-2014, 04:08
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving To

One useful application for heaving to is to talk to another boat. If you can persuade them to heave to, then you can come up under their lee (or to windward, if you reckon they're making more leeway...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 05-05-2014, 13:14
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving To

mbianka

Choking the wishbone (by which I understand you mean snugging it to the mast) would help with keeping the sail flat, but what is more important, and essential to the manoeuvre's success,...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 04-05-2014, 17:59
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving To

mbianka

Wishbone boom doesn't seem to me to be a factor, pro or con; I've tried it on lots of boats, and not had a fail yet, but the only ones with wishbones have been windsurfers ...

But it...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 04-05-2014, 14:49
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

The "prevented main" heaving-to technique, with the boom well outboard, works well for shoal draft monos, even with appendages -- including rudder(s) -- retracted

It's no accident that I...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 04-05-2014, 01:55
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

quoting myself because of an afterthought:

I have to keep reminding myself that most offshore sailors (at least in the Anglosphere) do not share my preference for shallow draft hull-form for...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 01-05-2014, 19:56
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

I share most of your preferences, sabray. And I'm not enthusiastic about using drag devices when there are any other viable options left on the table.

But I have to grudgingly concede that a para...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 01-05-2014, 18:47
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

You mean, like Kipling's cat in the Just So stories, who

"walked by himself, and all places were alike to him." ?
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 30-04-2014, 22:12
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

Indeed .... I fully support teaching the above technique as a basic building block, which is applicable across a wide range of circumstances, and which can be done in a measured way, giving all...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 30-04-2014, 19:26
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

Hmm ... Messrs Merriam & Webster seem to think they're synonyms.


PS: thanks for your support on the latter point. Better late than never ! ;)
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 30-04-2014, 13:14
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

In my first thread on discovering this forum, I hoped to discuss a novel way of heaving to. I was at pains to explain that I saw this novel way as offering unique benefits in situations other than...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 24-04-2014, 22:55
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

I thought war was god's way of teaching your compatriots geography and history?

Even keeping a tight focus on WW2, without resorting to Google I can think of at least six other candidates.

I'm...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 24-04-2014, 16:11
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

Nigel

Nice to know someone's paying attention ;)

I agree with what you say, if there were not the competing consideration of trying to immobilise the clew laterally, which is what my post was...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 24-04-2014, 15:00
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

Good luck. Start with the main outboard of the toerail. Reach along with it just drawing, then once you have the preventer set, gradually wind the helm to windward (or tiller to leeward) as the speed...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 24-04-2014, 14:13
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

I'm pretty sure even the Pardeys don't share your faith in the Pardeys.
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 23-04-2014, 16:19
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

Nice double play, guys.

The unscripted ones are always better than set-piece play!
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 23-04-2014, 16:17
Replies: 130
Views: 22,129
Posted By Andrew Troup
Re: Heaving to

It's often claimed that "Modern boats won't heave to successfully in heavy weather"

This might apply to mobile condos, but certainly doesn't apply to most modern racing hulls*, racer-cruisers,...
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