Bare poles?

[merttan]

Originally Posted by BlowinSouth

... in a matter of seconds and the boat rounded up through the wind and back winded the jib which turned us around 180 degrees which caused the main to gybe which spun us back around.

My wife has done that once... We were sailing downwind, I gave her the rudder so I could take a look at the furler which rolled the sheet around itself. As I fixed the furler, i felt a change on winds... She said the rudder is pulling hard... I don't know what she did there but we spun around 180 degrees on our keel...
The boat just turned around on its keel without stopping... That was an interesting + scary moment for both of us on board since I lost my balance and was about to fell overboard, I hold the front stay and jib. Thus jumped from starboard bow side to port bow side around the front of the boat ... My wife still tells me that my legs just took off from the boat and I swung around then landed...

That was a day to remember...

[BlowinSouth]

Merttan, I wouldn't blame your wife, I was on the tiller that day and the rudder had no effect whatsoever I had the tiller hard to weather to try and fall off but it didn't do a damn thing, just rounded up and spun on it's keel. It was the freakiest thing!

[nolatom]

Originally Posted by merttan

My wife has done that once... We were sailing downwind, I gave her the rudder so I could take a look at the furler which rolled the sheet around itself. As I fixed the furler, i felt a change on winds... She said the rudder is pulling hard... I don't know what she did there but we spun around 180 degrees on our keel...
The boat just turned around on its keel without stopping... That was an interesting + scary moment for both of us on board since I lost my balance and was about to fell overboard, I hold the front stay and jib. Thus jumped from starboard bow side to port bow side around the front of the boat ... My wife still tells me that my legs just took off from the boat and I swung around then landed...

That was a day to remember...

Sometimes on a smallish boat, heading downwind in a strong breeze, sending the weight of one crew to the bow buries it in a sea, which moves your center la lateral resistance forward giving you more weather helm, stern lifts up so less rudder in the water anyway, result is you can't stop the boat from heading up, heeling and broaching in the process. This is when you want to keep your weight way aft downwind, and it's a bummer when something malfunctions forward and you have to go up there.

[merttan]

Originally Posted by BlowinSouth

Merttan, I wouldn't blame your wife, I was on the tiller that day and the rudder had no effect whatsoever I had the tiller hard to weather to try and fall off but it didn't do a damn thing, just rounded up and spun on it's keel. It was the freakiest thing!

Hi, I'm not blaming her whatsoever... I was just mentioning it... I don't think I could do anything better anyways... I like having her onboard, she is so eager to learn how to sail...

[US27inKS]

Merttan, You're a lucky guy. My wife loves the boat, but only if it doesn't heel more than 10 degrees. If the boat broached with her at the wheel, I don't know if I could get her out of the slip again.

Be careful with a partially rolled headsail on a roller furler. I found myself overcanvassed while singlehanding in a 17 mile race. No way to change the headsail. I tried rolling it up halfway. The headsail shape was a disaster. It had a large bubble in the middle of the luff. The boat oscillated between rounding up and getting pinned over at 50 plus degrees. I promptly unrolled the sail and learned to be happy at 40 degrees.