silverback wrote:

First off I can turn even my 30 ft full keeler in a 40 ft fairway...
crosswind or not. I can also station keep with my single screw.

When you understand prop walk and the wash against the
rudder, you do a number of things. There also things that
cannot be done, and prop walk has it's limits.


... The one time
I had to effect an emergency stop and 180 into a narrow docking facilty...
sailing in... no auxillary on or engaged. I dropped the hook

heh heh they did that in "Pirates of the Caribbean" too.


... it brought me
staight about and then I dropped the genny, engaged the engine and weighed
hook to exit the area. It was the slickest thing you've ever seen.

More sailors should take time to practise maneuvers under power and sail
with their vessels to really comprehend not only the limitations ... but the
potential.


Agreed.

Drift or "carry" is another thing I find most sailors don't understand about
their vessels.


Relatively few people practice any maneuvers; much less work
out ways of carrying out less-common ones and practice those.

It is one reason why racers are better sailors... they
regularly carry out a lot more actions under varying
conditions, and do them more often.


To answer your question..... reverse to your walk and swing the bow thru
the wind if a fin keeler...... opposite if you are a full keeler. [
Remember to hug to the appropraite side of the channel... windward for fin
keeler and leeward for full keeler.]


Why would you hug the lee side of a channel if a full keeler??

Fresh Breezes- Doug King