The point is to not have any flow around the headsail, which in my experience is always backwinded.
The backed headsail pushes the bow down until the main develops thrust and moves the boat forward, then the rudder pushes the bow back up until the boat stalls out and the backed headsail pushes the bow back down. Now I do roll in the 140 on my 38 when I heave-to. I have a mark at 90% on the foot of the sail mostly for that purpose. But that is because I have a carbon fiber sail on a roller, and being up against the shrouds is not good for the sail. I prefer to have chafe in the sheets than damage to the carbon fibers. Rick Brass Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Heaton Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 1:56 PM To: cnc-list Subject: Re: Stus-List Heaving-to Hi Mark, I'm no expert but it would seem to me you need a fairly small head-sail to get most any boat to heave to properly as the head-sail is normally backwinded as part of heaving to. Back-winding a sail much bigger than a 100% would put it hard on the spreaders which isn't going to be good for the sail or for airflow around the sail. Ciao. Ken Heaton (& Anne Tobin) S/V Salazar - Can 54955 C&C 37/40 XL - Hull # 67 Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia On 10 November 2012 14:32, Mark G <[email protected]> wrote: After 6 years of experimenting on an infrequent basis I was finally able to easily and repeatedly heave-to my 25 Mk1 this year. I sail with a 135-140% Genoa on a furler. On the day everything clicked it was furled to about 100-110%. Since then, I have made furling the Genoa to 100-110% the first step of heaving-to. It makes sense to me that, since heaving-to is all about balancing the sails, sail area forward would be a significant factor. But on a boat without a furler this can't be accomplished without a sail change, etc. So I'm thinking the same thing might be accomplished by positioning the main sail with the sheet or the traveler. Can anybody weigh in on their experience, particularly with the 25 Mk1? Mark _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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