[C320-list] Heaving-to

[Guy Smith]

 Hey All!
I've been watching this thread waiting to see if anyone would comment on Jib Sheet chaffing...I haven't tried heaving-to in a while, maybe since the first year I owned Pleiades, but I remember that the jib car track didn't have a great angle for sheeting the jib when back-winded without sawing on the shrouds...After replacing my Genoa cars with a continuous adjustable system, I saved the fixed cars thinking that they might be used on the cabin top car track to sheet the Jib inside the shrouds. Haven't tried it yet.Since there's no toe rail track on a 320 to set up a barber hauler to pull the sheet off the shroud, I was wondering what others would do in the event that you have a significant time hove-to to alleviate chaff...
Regards,~g
Guy and Liz Smithsv Pleiades'97 C320 #452Worton Creek MDUSA
    On Saturday, July 25, 2020, 09:11:34 AM EDT, Harry Juris <harry at citron-too.com> wrote:  
 
 Graeme is correct. Like many nautical terms I use today they have carried on as much by tradition as anything else. If you picture your rudder with an imaginary tiller attached to its top (or actually test by attaching the emergency tiller) you wilss that when you turn the wheel to windward to tack, the tiller moves to lleeward.

Harry Juris
Polar Star 
1998 C320 #541
Nyack Boat Club, Nyack, NY

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From: C320-list <c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com> On Behalf Of Graeme Clark
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 1:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [C320-list] Heaving-to

David

I think traditional books talk about putting the tiller leeward to turn the boat windward (hence the call when tacking, “helm’s a’lee”).  Obviously with wheel steering that’s not the case Could that account for the confusion?
Graeme


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> On 24 Jul 2020, at 02:08, David Hayes <davidhayes1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently read the Atom Voyages article about the 13 day offshore trip in a 320, a really great article.  But, I'd appreciate any thoughts regarding one particular reference he makes to heaving-to and the sail configuration he used....where he says he backfilled the jib and had the helm (locked) turned slightly leeward, and the boat (rather than heaving-to, actually started forereaching quite calmly) happily galloped off to the south-east at about 5 knots with a wind from the south-west, and stayed on that course itself all night without a hand on the wheel.
> Everything I have read about heaving-to says to backfill the job and turn the wheel to windward.....not leeward.  I have tried it only once in very light winds and this seemed to work as intended, but I do plan on practising this again in heavier winds next time I'm out.  But this article seems contrary to other things I have read.  No doubt it depends on the precise amount of sail you have out etc as to exactly where you have the wheel pointed to achieve the result the author achieved, but steering to leeward, with a backfilled jib, I would expect to push you strongly downwind rather than keep you on a reach?
> 
> I'd appreciate any thoughts.
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