Randy, Don't you just love confusion?
Never heave to with the main running free, it sort of defeats the purpose and the boat will oscilate back and forth almost beam on to the seas. In theory you can leave the main cleated just like you were on a beat. You just tack without moving the jib across the bow. Just tack slowly to take most but not all the forward speed off of the boat, hold the tiller to leward on the new tack and the boat should just foot into the waves making some forward progress. In practice My M15 will tack on it's own if I leave it that way so I ease the mainsheet out a few to several inchs and then cleat it and watch what the boat does for little while before I trust it enough to go below for several minutes. I have gone along hove to for up to an hour while I made lunch and repacked some things. It really does work well. Thanks Doug Kelch --- Jesse Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy, > > When you heave to you let the main run free. Do > not sheet it in like > you do the jib. If I were single handing I think > the only choice to reef in > any kind of heavy air would be to heave to. With > crew you may be able to do > it on the run. > > Jesse > M 15 #343 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:38 PM > Subject: RE: M_Boats: Telltales on Mainsail? > > > > Thanks everyone for the great information! I did > search the achieves at > www.msog.org and found some great threads. A couple > of threads pointed to an > article on reefing from Pineapple Sales > http://www.sailmaker.com/articles/reefing.htm . The > article was good > reading, as was the achieves, and your replies. > Thank You! > > > > There seems to be 2 schools of thought regarding > on what point of sail to > reef a small boat. Some prefer to reef on a close > reach, other prefer to > reef while hove-to. In our M-15 (#407) all our lines > are lead aft but, as I > sail alone, I still must let go of the tiller in > order to reef. I am > concerned about letting go of the tiller on a close > reach in high winds. > Certainly she would fall off-wind or round up? Any > thoughts or comments? > > > > The heave-to method would allow me to secure the > tiller in a hard-over > position and then have both hands free to work the > lines. I want to give > this method a try next time but will first practice > and attempt to perfect > heaving-to! > > > > It looks like I made 2 mistakes yesterday while > heaving-to. 1- The back > winded Jib was not fully flat, I should have sheeted > it in tighter. And 2- > it sounds like I should have sheeted in the main > just a bit. I will give > these a try on Monday. From the pictures in the > books <grin> I was > expecting the bow to be apx. into the wind, with a > side-to-side wiggle. > Yesterday I hove-to on a port tack and the bow > settled apx. 30 degrees > off-wind to port and no-wiggle. I also seemed to be > making more forward > headway than I expected, apx. 1.7 - 1.9 knots of > forward movement in apx. > 15 - 20 knots of wind. Any other thoughts or ideas? > > > > Thanks again, > > Randy Graves > > M-15 #407 > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
