OzOne wrote:
What's a Nth River gybe? Never heard the term.

It's a variation of chicken gybing.. turn very quickly from DDW to just
above beam reach on the new tack, the main comes over hard but doesn't
come up against the sheet or the rig, just luffs on the new side. Then
quickly bear away to new course. You can do it while surfing, but of
course the risk is getting caught by the crest while turning.


Multis, particularly big tris, don't turn quickly but instead "carve"
their way thru what becomes a turn.
They sink down on the outside ama which is the lowside one as you go
past directly down the wave so heel can be quite a shock and the wave
cannot have too steep a face.

Yeah, you don't want to bury the bow either! One thing I dislike about
multis is the very large loads they generate on the rig. Going fast
downwind helps.





Personally, I'd think seriously about just hauling the main down in it's
gear until there was only ten feet or so showing, and then putting it
over by hand and hoisting again. Lot of hard work though.



Yeah, but then you need to turn completely around both to drop and
hoist.

Not necessarily. There are a bunch of rigs that you can pull the sail
down in it's lazyjacks... obviously not if it's draped across two or
three spreaders though...


In that case, you might just as well granny.

In 40 knot winds, yes. In 40 foot waves, I'm not so sure!

I remember getting tossed over the boom into the sail, tacking once in
about 40 knots... although the waves were not 40 feet they were pretty
high & steep. The helmsman sharply turned us right into a crest and the
combination roll, pitch, plus a big surge of water coming over the rail,
flung crew all over the place.

DSK

DSK wrote:

OzOne wrote:

What's a Nth River gybe? Never heard the term.


It's a variation of chicken gybing.. turn very quickly from DDW to just
above beam reach on the new tack, the main comes over hard but doesn't
come up against the sheet or the rig, just luffs on the new side. Then
quickly bear away to new course. You can do it while surfing, but of
course the risk is getting caught by the crest while turning.


"You" can do it? I'd say it's a very bad idea in a big sea.

Cheers