Really, when you're hove to, you're pointing about 60 degrees off the wind and your COG is about 90 degrees to the breeze. How hard you have the main sheeted controls your angle to the breeze. I will roll most of the jib in big breeze...leaving as little as 10 or 20% out. Coming home to New England in the spring, it is often difficult to get more than a three-day window for a four-day trip, so I will leave Bermuda about a day before a front is due and sail north until the breeze shifts and the waves get too big, at which point I will heave to and wait for the wind to shift; usually about twelve hours.
http://www.cruisingworld.com/how/smart-times-heaving Andy C&C 40 Peregrine Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 > On Aug 13, 2015, at 22:11, Josh Muckley via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > Yeah, so i guess the boat may be moving forward sorta. Assuming you get the > boat "stopped", then it will crab sideways. Since the crash back was > started on the other tack the crabbing action often times brings the boat > closer to the victim. > > Josh > >> On Aug 13, 2015 9:25 PM, "Josh Muckley" <muckl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> "The boat is moving forward while hove-to" I'll have to think on that one >> for a while. There is a man-overboard maneuver that I call a crash back. >> You basically turn up into the wind but don't release the headsail sheets. >> Once the bow is through the wind turn the wheel back all the way and lock >> it. You are in effect now hove-to. Now you can throw a float and focus on >> the MOB. The nice thing about this maneuver is that the boat will stop and >> then drift backwards towards(ish) the victim. >> >> I don't do it often so I'll have to double check. >> >> Josh >> >>> On Aug 13, 2015 9:12 PM, "Daniel Sheer via CnC-List" >>> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >>> Patrick, >>> >>> On Pegathy, also an LF38, I have never reefed the main. I have two reef >>> points, but I take it down, or just don't put it up. The boat sails very >>> well under jib alone, and I reef the roller furling jib in very high winds >>> - sailed from Martha's Vineyard to Natucket very comfortably in 40 knots >>> with jib alone reefed to 110%. That includes a very close reach into the >>> inlet. I have hove to in Pegathy with a full genoa, but not in high winds. >>> >>> My understanding is that when hove to, the boat should be going forward. >>> This makes sense, since if you're moving aft with the rudder to windward, >>> the boat will fall off, as you described. You must be going forward for the >>> rudder to have the desired effect. If you had the main too tight, you may >>> indeed have been moving aft. When hove to, the main needs to produce enough >>> drive to overcome the windage of the jib and still move the boat forward. >>> That also means there must be enough angle of attack for the keel to >>> produce lift. At least, that's how I understand it. I suggest the Lin's >>> book; "Storm Tactics" is the name, I think. Pretty thorough discussion of >>> heaving to and other ways to stay below safely in storms. >>> >>> BTW, I made my own slide gate out of 1/8 in. aluminum bar to make it easier >>> to get the main into the stack pack. >>> >>> Dan Sheer, >>> >>> Pegathy, LF38. Rock Creek off the Patapsco. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Email address: >>> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >>> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the >>> bottom of page at: >>> http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom > of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >
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