Our rule to minimize the possibility of a death roll is to NEVER, EVER let the center seam of the chute be to windward of the forestay in heavy breeze. That's on the guy trimmer. It's one of the few things one can do on Touche' where you get yelled at by me.
Ease the pole forward so the center seam is 1-2 feet to leeward of the forestay. If the boat starts to heel to windward, ease the pole more and trim the chute IN, not out. Pulling the chute behind the main will lessen the chance of a death roll. Unfortunately, the natural tendency of most trimmers is to ease or release a sail in such a situation. If the chute is eased, it will swing further to windward and drag the boat down into a death roll. Bad, bad scene. For non-racers, death rolls are scary bad. They can occur when sailing dead downwind with the chute poled out. The boat can become unstable and start into a "windshield wiper" oscillation. If extreme, the boat heels well to windward and the pole enters the water. The speed of the boat can snap the pole's bridle or downhaul and the pole will pivot into the shrouds. It can bring the rig down. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 3:08 PM Don Kern via CnC-List <[email protected]> wrote: > Two other advantages with this arrangement is that with the guy led into > the toe rail amidships it also acts as a pole downhaul and when running > dead before the wind, in very heavy blow we choke the spinnaker with the > lazy guy to inhibit death roles. > Don Kern > Fireball C&C35 MK2 > Bristol, RI > > > >
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