Crap'n Neal® wrote:
I know enough to understand a balanced sail plan. The only
time a storm trysail is needed is for survival conditions.

And you think that 85 knot winds and 60+ foot breaking waves is... what,
exactly?


Now, getting down to the "balanced sail plan" concept


... Those guys were clearly hove-to and hove-to
sideways to the wind.

???

Do you understand what "hove-to" is? Please explain what you see in this
picture which indicates the yacht is "hove-to."


DSK