With the Montgomery boats there should not be a problem heaving to regardless of where the weight is.
Heaving to is somewhat of a balancing act/art form but the basics should work all of the time. 1)cleat off the jib tight to the fairlead, 2)Tack leaving the jib cleated 3) hold the heading head to wind for a few seconds during the tack to take the speed off of the boat. 4) ease the mainsheet so that the boom is a foot or two off of the stern quarter and comlete the tack. 5) push the tiller as far to leward as possible on the new tack and tie it off. It is critical that the rudder be all the way to leward so that it acts as a brake and lets the boat burn any off any new energy trying to tack back when it has no momentum. The boat will creep forward makeing small attempts to come up to windward but not succeeding due the tiller braking action and the backwinded jib. My jiffy reefing is set up inboard of the end of the boom just so I can reach the reefing lines while hove to. Thanks Doug Kelch --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 7/3/2005 7:08:04 AM Pacific > Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have the same problem on my M-15 (IE Heaving to > while reefing). > Hi Don, I've been getting in lots of sailing and > practice in the past > couple of weeks. Yesterday was a good example of > doing it right. My neice was in > the boat and when it came time to reef, we tacked, > made all of the adjustments > to tiller, main, etc and Tipperary just settled in > and let me do as I wished > (no rounding up). The day before yeasterday I > had brought along a second > anchor and rode, some more personal items and more > boat gear to add maybe 150 > pounds. I put everything heavy on the starboard side > to help ballance the motor, > other anchor, battery, etc. What I find is; > Tipperary is happiest with a > couple of people or with at least a few hundred > pounds in her to react properly. > Heaving to without weight wasn't very consistent, > especially in winds above 10 - > 15 knots. However, after I weighted her down a bit, > she's happy and I am > too. It seems weight is the key for Tipperary. > Bill M-17 > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
