[C320-list] Broaching

[Kirk McCullough]

If you don't go sailing nothing ever happens. If you are out there a lot, 
stuff happens. If you never fly your spinnaker, you'll never get a spinnaker 
wrap, or find yourself suddenly overpowered, when only a moment earlier you 
were enjoying great downwind run. On my Newport 28 years ago, I blew out the 
foot and part way up the luff, of my mainsail. I should have reduced sail, 
but I was making great head way beating into a 35 kt breeze. We were on the 
edge but having fun. Not so much fun when we had to motor 20miles after the 
main blew out, but so it goes.

Kirk McCullough
Boomerang #124

Its all good, as long we come out safe and sound.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Weiner" <esquirecatering at rcn.com>
To: "'C320-List'" <c320-list at catalina320.com>
Cc: <CraigEneboe at aol.com>; <straum_rpi at yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 10:09 PM
Subject: [C320-list] Broaching


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> After the Broach article came out in the Mainsheet I received several
> comments from this list (even from people in the SF Bay Area) that the
> problem is that I sail at night and that at night you can't see the wind
> coming.  I gave a defense to these people that broaches occur in the day
> and that when people distant race the California coast, race to Hawaii,
> etc. they don't take their chutes down at night.
>
> For those of you with access to Latitude 38 you might want to look at
> the picture on 164 of the January issue.  It is a great shot of a Merit
> 25 taken IN THE DAY and the photo is captioned "Shake, Rattle and Roll."
> The boom is in the water, the rudder is out of the water, the spinnaker
> has water in its belly and you can see in the Bay the ripples of where
> it just was, and finally water is cascading into the cockpit.  The
> caption mentions other broaches which were photographed and put in the
> magazine over the years including far better sailors then me like Tom
> Blackaller and Paul Cayard.  I guess I feel slightly redeemed.
>
> Adam
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