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Originally Posted by s.runals
Have been out in winds 60+ going to St Thomas about 5 yrs ago. Lost the main sail - ripped from foot to head on a Janeau 41. We also last the steering and had to use the emergency tiller - very fun night. Also spent 24 hrs hove-to on the way to Bermuda on my Pacific Seacraft 34 3 years ago. In both cases we were successful in getting thru the wx and into port. We found that you and the boat have to be prepared for just about anything when going off shore. In the first case we were on a delivery and the sail was very old - it just could not take the wind speed. On the trip to Bermuda, after we got the boat settled down we spent a very comfortable night watching DVD's and talking to Bermuda radion on the SSB. One thing that you should definately do is learn how to heave to. Very useful for a wide variety of things and generally good - depending on the boat - up to the point you start to have breaking waves.
Steve
PSC 34 Norfolk
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Holy crap! How did I miss this post????
Runals are you still around? How about some more detail on that St. Thomas sail? I'm particularly interested in the emergency tiller and how you set up the boat (sails, running/hove to, drogues, etc.) to ride that out. What was the sea state?
Those PSCs seem to be serious tanks in HW.