Good Question Bart,

The helm jammed on my gut once and was usless.

It was that time I left the dock.
So I hit a rock. That stopped me fast, even spilled my breast milk. But
I felt it was a safe slam since the hull of Ghost was mushy and soft.

Capt Rob
35s5 Fastest boat on the planet
NY

Point to you. Good answer.

wrote
"Club Haul" her. I've read enough novels of sailing ships. Drop your
anchor while underway on the side you want to turn towrds

Point to you Jon.

If you have a tow behind you, you can use a tow line
lead to the bow on the leeward side, releasing it from
the stern.

What got me thinking about this question was a
Patrick O'Brien story that started out with Luck
Jack towing a dismasted prize into a harbor.
Even with a rudder, it might be hard to tack. He
solved that probelm by rigging a bridle to the bow
and used the tow for the manuever.

"Capt. JG" wrote
I'm assuming that you don't have time to deploy an emergency rudder... in
that case, you would have to create drag on one side of the boat...
perhaps anchor or short-line drogue off the bow?

Actually, I was thinking that if you're towing using a bridal, you could
shorten one side of it, assuming the point of the triangle of what was being
towed was fixed. That might be enough to help you through a tack. Of course,
then you'd have to reset it.

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"j" ganz @@
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"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
Point to you Jon.

If you have a tow behind you, you can use a tow line
lead to the bow on the leeward side, releasing it from
the stern.

What got me thinking about this question was a
Patrick O'Brien story that started out with Luck
Jack towing a dismasted prize into a harbor.
Even with a rudder, it might be hard to tack. He
solved that probelm by rigging a bridle to the bow
and used the tow for the manuever.

"Capt. JG" wrote
I'm assuming that you don't have time to deploy an emergency rudder... in
that case, you would have to create drag on one side of the boat...
perhaps anchor or short-line drogue off the bow?

Scotty wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

Bart Senior wrote:

If you have lost your rudder, what can you
use to steer the vessel besides it's sails.

Say for example you have a tack you have to
make, or risk running aground. What can
you do to positively insure you get the bow
through the eye of the wind?



throw an old sail off the lee side of the bow?


wouldn't that gybe?



No...you're into the wind, not downwind, so throwing the weight over
the bow on the lee side would shove the bow across the wind and
force a rack...I think....