"sherwindu" wrote in message
...
That's what I get for sending out messages in the middle of the night. I
really
meant
heaving to, instead of lying ahull. However, I was not that far off the
mark since
Royce
defines ahull as heaving to under bare poles with helm alee. It has
saved my butt
many times.
My conception is setting a storm jib to back on the windward side, the
main sail is
reefed
and set to leeward, and the rudder is turned to leeward. My experience is
that the
boat will
actually make some forward headway at a very slow pace, in my case about 1
knot.
This causes the boat to alternately head up into the wind and fall off
due to the
backed jib.
I hope I got my semantics right this time, although I never heard of a
boat sinking because of semantics.



We knew that. g

There's a lot of controversy about lying ahull. It's not recommended these
days.

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