"Jeff" wrote
Are you seriously saying that people that only have one large sail, often with a large heavy boom, find it easier to
gybe in heavy air than to tack? I am at a loss for words!

The boom is very long and heavy and there's another one on top of the sail. But, if you ever
sailed one in heavy winds you'd know that jibing them is easy. It's easy because the boom on top
called the gaff boom blows the top part of the sail well forward. The main boom is held back by the
sheets. So when you wear ship you slowly tighten up on the sheet till it's almost centered but the gaff
boom keeps the top of the sail downwind. When you go through the eye, no that's not right, what's the
opposite of the eye? The tail of the wind? No that's not right either. Whatever, when you start to go
around on the other tack the gaff boom just swings across to the other side real easy like. Then you
can ease the mainsheet.
If your gonna get a cat boat you'd better learn how to do this....

Cheers,
Ellen

Ellen MacArthur wrote:

If your gonna get a cat boat you'd better learn how to do this....

Cheers,
Ellen


Jeff..
You wanna borrow my mincemenat grinder?.

"katy" wrote in message

Ellen MacArthur wrote:

If your gonna get a cat boat you'd better learn how to do
this.... Cheers,
Ellen


Jeff..
You wanna borrow my mincemenat grinder?.

Are you making a pie?

Respectfully,
Capt. Neal

Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Jeff" wrote
Are you seriously saying that people that only have one large sail, often with a large heavy boom, find it easier to
gybe in heavy air than to tack? I am at a loss for words!

The boom is very long and heavy and there's another one on top of the sail. But, if you ever
sailed one in heavy winds you'd know that jibing them is easy. It's easy because the boom on top
called the gaff boom blows the top part of the sail well forward. The main boom is held back by the
sheets. So when you wear ship you slowly tighten up on the sheet till it's almost centered but the gaff
boom keeps the top of the sail downwind. When you go through the eye, no that's not right, what's the
opposite of the eye? The tail of the wind? No that's not right either. Whatever, when you start to go
around on the other tack the gaff boom just swings across to the other side real easy like. Then you
can ease the mainsheet.
If your gonna get a cat boat you'd better learn how to do this....

All you're saying here is that there's a chance that you might be able
to gybe in heavy air without destroying the boat. But anyone skilled
enough to do that would have no trouble at all tacking. However, it
is quite a lot of work hauling the doubled mainsheet, and all the
while you're doing this the boat is unbalanced and trying to head up.

Of course, gybing to avoid tacking is particularly stupid if you're
trying to get upwind.

As it turns out, many is the time I've done a "chicken gybe" by
tacking rather than gybing a catboats - muck less stress on the boat
and crew. And I don't recall ever getting stuck in irons.

And the proper spelling is "ware ship."

"Jeff" wrote

And the proper spelling is "ware ship."

Nyut ah!! http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/WEARSHIP

Cheers,
Ellen

Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Jeff" wrote

And the proper spelling is "ware ship."

Nyut ah!! http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/WEARSHIP



More proof its Neal in drag. He's using a lubber's dictionary for
nautical terms.

From "The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor," Darcy Lever, 1819:

To Ware ... To turn the ship from the wind.


From "The Seaman's Friend," Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1879
Wear (see Ware.)
Ware, or Wear. To turn the ship around ... carrying the stern around
by the wind.


Also, in the 1802 edition of Bowditch the primary spelling is listed
as "To Veer Ship."

"Jeff" wrote
Of course, gybing to avoid tacking is particularly stupid if you're trying to get upwind.

Duh, tell that to Christopher Columbus and everybody else on tall ships.....

Cheers,
Ellen

Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Jeff" wrote
Of course, gybing to avoid tacking is particularly stupid if you're trying to get upwind.

Duh, tell that to Christopher Columbus and everybody else on tall ships.....


So now you're telling us that handling a Catboat is the same as
handling a Square Rigged Tall Ship. Yes, truly you're a lubber.

"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
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"Jeff" wrote
Of course, gybing to avoid tacking is particularly stupid if you're
trying to get upwind.

Duh, tell that to Christopher Columbus and everybody else on tall
ships.....

Cheers,
Ellen

No, not everybody.
Read Alan Villiers 'The set of the Sails' about how the captain of the four
masted 'Lawhill' tacked away from a leeshore at the mouth of the Gironde
river with a small crew of young boys while other captains were getting tugs
to tow them as much as 50 miles offshore before setting sail.
Also his book 'The voyage of the Joseph Conrad' .
He tacked the Joseph Conrad for a week just to make a few miles in a fairly
narrow channel. She ended up in Mystic Seaport. don't know if she is still
there.
Tall ships could be tacked if they had a good crew and a captain who had the
guts to do it. Bear away a bit, get up some speed and go for it!

"Jeff" wrote in message
. ..

And the proper spelling is "ware ship."