Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1 pt

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Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1 pt


1- pull the main sheet in enough & cleat it (actually, youor
main sheet should be cut a length such that the stopper knot
hits the block just before the boom hits the shrouds, but
it's amazing how few people attend to little details like this)

2- a North River gybe

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

wrote:
Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1 pt

Buy a catboat.

My Nonsuch, of course, didn't have a problem with stays, but the gybes
could be thunderous. The previous owner installed one of the rubber
snubbers that RB loves to absorb some of the shock.

Another trick: To reduce accidental gybe, tighten the topping lift a
lot to add twist to the sail. In this configuration, you have to be
about 30 degrees by the lee to gybe accidentally. This also raises
the boom off the water and deck.

Keep the main sheet tight enough, with the traveler to the
opposite side?

Scotty


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Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1 pt

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| Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
| what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
| hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?


Baggywrinkle and lots of it will keep the boom from hitting the shroud.

Cheers,
Ellen

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Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1 pt

Sail a Laser or some other boat without shrouds.

What do I win?

//Walt

Don't do a hard gybe.

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Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1 pt

1 point to Doug.

A stopper knot works well in this case.

"DSK" wrote

Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1- pull the main sheet in enough & cleat it (actually, your main sheet
should be cut a length such that the stopper knot hits the block just
before the boom hits the shrouds, but it's amazing how few people attend
to little details like this)
Fresh Breezes- Doug King

1 point to Jeff for the tip.

"Jeff" wrote

wrote:
Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1 pt

Another trick: To reduce accidental gybe, tighten the topping lift a lot
to add twist to the sail. In this configuration, you have to be about 30
degrees by the lee to gybe accidentally. This also raises the boom off
the water and deck.

Bart Senior wrote:

1 point to Doug.
A stopper knot works well in this case.

"DSK" wrote


Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1- pull the main sheet in enough & cleat it (actually, your main sheet
should be cut a length such that the stopper knot hits the block just
before the boom hits the shrouds, but it's amazing how few people attend
to little details like this)

Yeah, that'll work, assuming you are willing to give up some downwind
performance by not allowing your main to go out all the way. I like to
let it out all the way, loosen up the rig tension and then have the
crew push agressively on the boom to get the main out as far as
possible. A stopper knot doesn't allow this.



//Walt