The main does not stay on the boom nice and flaked.
Usually there is a flap or two on one side and the
rest of the sail on the other. It is an easy task to
then flake the sail on the boom starting from the
outhaul and adding gaskets till the sail is secure
and ready for the sail cover.

Keep up the anchoring under sail lessons
and I like the fact that you have them do it
with both sails still up. This is important in
case the anchor does not bite and you have
to get underway again in a hurry for some
reason like dragging down on another boat.

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message ...
Interesting, but how do you keep the mainsail from falling
off the boom? Even in light wind, this is going to be an
issue. Of course, you would have sail ties ready, but it
would still be a fair mess, even with hand flaking from
the mast.

On the Catalina 27 that I teach on, I have the students
anchor under sail. Since we're picking an area that
generally has some blanket from the wind, flogging jib
sheets aren't an issue. We just head up close hauled,
then turn into it, slowing the boat to zero, deploy, and
let the boat back down while letter out rode. Cello, it's
done.

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
...
Gladly.

My boat heaves-to with no forereaching when the tiller is tied
off so the rudder is 90 degrees to her centerline. This means I
can sail close hauled to a point directly upwind of a mooring,
come up and around so the jib backs, tie the tiller off at 90
degrees and drift about one knot or less depending on the
wind down on the mooring ball.

I then grab the mooring pendant and make the line fast to a
cleat on the bow. This happens while the jib is still backed
and the vessel is still drifting sideways. Then I walk back to
the mast where both the jib and main halyard are made fast
to their respective cleats. I cast off the jib halyard as soon
as the vessel snubs up on the mooring and points her prow
into the wind. The jib falls straight down on the foredeck.

Then I let go the main halyard and the main falls straight
down on the boom since the wind is still directly on the
bow. This all takes place in a flash as if both sails are
falling almost simultaneously. I keep the mast slot lubed
with silicone spray so the slugs don't hand up. The halyards
cause no friction because they don't go snaking through
various turning blocks to the cockpit as on those with
lubberly boats. Also, I have wire to rope halyards and
these run very, very free. The advantage of this type
halyard combined with hank-on jib means it is very
fast to drop the sail. Winding up a headsail while it is
flapping usually cause trouble for the wind-up crowd
while a little flapping assists a hank-on jib to fall.



"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
...
Neal,

Please explain your techigue of heaving-to to drift sideward?

Also, explain the advantage of "Hanked sails in a heave-to attitude?

OT