Thread: Seamanship Question #36
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Default Seamanship Question #36
wrote:
Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1 pt


1- pull the main sheet in enough & cleat it (actually, youor
main sheet should be cut a length such that the stopper knot
hits the block just before the boom hits the shrouds, but
it's amazing how few people attend to little details like this)

2- a North River gybe

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