That's what the USSailing instructors teach re hove-to. Start on port, end
up on starboard.

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"Scotty" wrote in message
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What is ones status while hove-to? I guess you should
always try to hove-to on starboard tack?

What would your status be , while single handing, drifting,
up at the bow pulling down your jib?

Scotty



"Bart" wrote in message
oups.com..
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Joe wrote:
Is there penalties for near misses?

can be if someone pushes the issue and gets the USCG
involved.

Joe

On starboard tack hove-to, with the helm lashed, I was
nearly run over
by the schooner Aurora in Newport Harbor. I yelled at the
skipper and
later when I was on port tack, altered course several
times to try and
run me down again--failing to maintain his stand-on
course. I wrote a
formal letter to the USCG and gave the names of witnesses.
The USCG
gave them a telephone call and a mild slap on the wrist.
The USCG
officer I spoke to told me they could not take action
unless there
was in fact a collision.

I still have a copy of the original letter. I should post
it here.

If you ever go to Newport. Don't patronize the Aurora.

Capt. JG wrote:

That's what the USSailing instructors teach re hove-to. Start on port, end
up on starboard.


Really? They teach you to tack as part of heaving to? Why is this
necessary?

//Walt

"Walt" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:

That's what the USSailing instructors teach re hove-to.
Start on port, end
up on starboard.


Really? They teach you to tack as part of heaving to?
Why is this
necessary?


You don't?

SBV

Ummm... necessary? No. Easy.. yes. Leave the jib, tack, ease the main,
slowly put the helm back, you're done. What do you do?

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"Walt" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:

That's what the USSailing instructors teach re hove-to. Start on port,
end up on starboard.


Really? They teach you to tack as part of heaving to? Why is this
necessary?

//Walt

Capt. JG wrote:

Ummm... necessary? No. Easy.. yes. Leave the jib, tack, ease the main,
slowly put the helm back, you're done. What do you do?


Pull the windward jib sheet until the jib is backwinded, cleat it off.
Push the helm over.

Ok, I can see a problem with this approach if you're flying a 150%
genoa. Or even if you're using a smaller one and it's blowing. A
difference between dinghy sailing vs. keelboat.

//Walt

Big, big difference. We're talking real wind out here, not Sears wind.

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"Walt" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:

Ummm... necessary? No. Easy.. yes. Leave the jib, tack, ease the main,
slowly put the helm back, you're done. What do you do?


Pull the windward jib sheet until the jib is backwinded, cleat it off.
Push the helm over.

Ok, I can see a problem with this approach if you're flying a 150% genoa.
Or even if you're using a smaller one and it's blowing. A difference
between dinghy sailing vs. keelboat.

//Walt

"Walt" wrote

Capt. JG wrote:

Ummm... necessary? No. Easy.. yes. Leave the jib, tack, ease the main,
slowly put the helm back, you're done. What do you do?

Pull the windward jib sheet until the jib is backwinded, cleat it off.
Push the helm over.

Ok, I can see a problem with this approach if you're flying a 150% genoa.
Or even if you're using a smaller one and it's blowing. A difference
between dinghy sailing vs. keelboat.

//Walt

A slow tack with the jib backed will slow the boat down
so it doesn't want to tack back over.

"Walt" wrote
Capt. JG wrote:

That's what the USSailing instructors teach re hove-to. Start on port,
end up on starboard.


Really? They teach you to tack as part of heaving to? Why is this
necessary?

//Walt

It is easier.

What is the easiest way to come out of being hove-to and get sailing a
again, assume you want to sail off up wind?