Odd.... I've rarely seen a wave train oriented differently than the wind
direction. The "Death Roll" is more common on fin keelers than full keelers.
I have never experienced a death roll scenario on my boat. I have on other
boats. If you have to quarter the wave train dead down wind.... adjust your
set or course to keep the vessel on a heel.


CM

"John Cairns" wrote in message
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| Can you say "death roll". We got caught running briefly last Saturday, and
| stared to intiate said action. Very uncomfortable, I can assure you.
|
| Finally, a run is dangerous. Those rolls can cause the boom to swing
across
| and smash your crew's heads. A single quick roll can cascade into a
series
| of ever deeper dips, alternately to windward and leeward, ending with a
wild
| broach either to windward or to leeward. This series of events is so
| catastrophic that it's called a death roll.
|
| John Cairns
| Gerard Weatherby wrote in message
| ...
| There's an article on sailnet (
|
|
http://www.sailnet.com/collections/a...d=rousma0082%2
| 0%20&tfr=fp
| or http://tinyurl.com/h9z6 ) which claims it's faster to tack downwind
on
| broad
| reaches instead of running straight downwind. (Assuming you want to get
| dead
| downwind.) Have those of you who sail found this to be true? Let's
| assume
| there's no spinnaker since I don't have one.
|
| S/V Cat's Meow
| http://www.catsmeow.org
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