CANDChelp wrote:

Bwaaaaaa hah haaaa hah haaa haaaa haaaaaaa!
Bubles you're nuts!

Maybe...but I can trim my boat so the wheel can be steered with a overcooked
strand of angel hair pasta!
I can just see Donal wrestling with that wheel, wondering what was wrong!

RB

Do you mean you're trimming for an absolutely neutral helm?
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Do you mean you're trimming for an absolutely neutral helm?

With sails set properly, I can walk away from the helm of Ghost or Alien
without locking the wheel. If you're fighting the wheel in reasonable
conditions, you need a sailing lesson.
Sorry.

RB

Do you mean you're trimming for an absolutely neutral helm?

With sails set properly (ie, furled and set in their covers), I can walk away
from the helm of Ghost or Alien
without locking the wheel. If you're fighting the wheel in reasonable
conditions, you need a sailing lesson.
Sorry.

RB

CANDChelp wrote:

Do you mean you're trimming for an absolutely neutral helm?

With sails set properly, I can walk away from the helm of Ghost or Alien
without locking the wheel.

Hmm. Interesting. I have always set my boats to self-steer on a
slight weather helm. I'm not sure that I believe the slight lift
at the rudder helps move us more to windward, as many authors
suggest, but I do know from bitter past experience that an
absolulte neutral helm will easily become a lee helm with
potentially dire connotations. And I will never leave a helm
unattended and unlashed. But then, nothing I've sailed has had a
wheel, other than when attached to a trailer. Must be different
physics...

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Hmm. Interesting. I have always set my boats to self-steer on a
slight weather helm.

This has little bearing on the "serious" problem Donal felt he was having at
the helm, now does it?
I'm sure Donal will come back and explain how gusty the conditions were! Big
surprise!

RB

"CANDChelp" wrote in message
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Hmm. Interesting. I have always set my boats to self-steer on a
slight weather helm.

This has little bearing on the "serious" problem Donal felt he was having
at
the helm, now does it?
I'm sure Donal will come back and explain how gusty the conditions were!
Big
surprise!

I will explain .... later!!! In the meantime, I'm having far too much fun
watching you making a complete idiot of yourself. You are doing a much
better job than usual. Top marks!




Regards


Donal
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