Doug,
Thanks for the clarification on heaving to and the position of the
mainsheet. You are correct.
Jesse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Kelch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: M_Boats: Telltales on Mainsail?
> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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