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More Tayana stuff
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(JAXAshby) wrote:
This is why the gods created diesel engines 
wouldn't help there. He had an outboard and only 12 gallons of fuel. But
motoring a LOT is MOTORing a lot.
I know people who won't sail if boat speed drops below 5 knots. Me, I have
been known to sail in winds so lite I was passed by a lobster pot from behind.
We were once passed by a crab pot when anchored. (We were dragging)
We have also been under sail and found the boat 'sailing' backward
toward the creek entrance that we had left - the tide was stronger
than the wind. We tried to do a MOB drill in a Morgan 46 when the
wind was almost non-existant in the Chesapeake, and the boat and the
cushion that was the MOB basically stayed there together regardless of
the sail set.
But in any case, it depends on why you are out there as to how low the
boat speed can drop without putting on the motor.
would one do as well
to simply drop the main in very light airs and go with the staysail and jib?
Or use the mainsail as well
We have a self tending staysail, which means we can tack and just have
to mess with the jib. In light air if the swells are very large, we
usually leave the main up, sheeted in tight. It helps to steady the
boat. Bob calls it an air keel.
in lite winds, you choice is pretty much down wind, and twin head sails seems
to be the preferred, though large genoa to one side with main to the other is
also used. The staysail is pretty small and isn't much use most of the time.
If you are willing to take whatever speed you can get and don't want to go much
downwind, a very large lite headsail (cut more flat than usual) and a lite
mainsail can keep you moving, though you VMG upwind usually ain't much, if
anything at all.
grandma Rosalie
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