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Originally Posted by Barquito
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I didn't realize that you could heave to with jib alone and have the boat balanced. Do you lock down the helm to do this?
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I haven't messed around with my boat enough to know if this would work either. This is also the question I have about heaving-to in order to lower sails. Once you lower one of the sails the boat will no longer be balanced.
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To actually do it though to raise the sail it has to be pretty breezy to get enough steerage to tack under
jib alone, can use the motor to give a little push through the wind if needed. Then again, with the exception of the hunter this is all with pretty nimble agile
jib liking boats. I have no clue if something like this would work with a big heavy mainsail liking full keel boat. I've never tried in those.
Every boat is different though. I learned this trick from an e-book on single handing I found on the Internet.