Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
On Nov 22, 3:12*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/...533?bclid=1442.... or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. What big waves? looks like a low swell with the occasional 6 footer. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:15 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote: http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. " Nip up the mast and take some pictures, Boris" |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
On Nov 22, 3:31�pm, Goofball_star_dot_etal
wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:15 -0500, Wayne.B wrote: http://link.brightcove.com/services/...533?bclid=1442.... or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. " Nip up the mast and take some pictures, Boris" I could see where that could be fun. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
Wayne.B wrote in
: http://link.brightcove.com/services/...3?bclid=144278 1204&bctid=2764360001 Thanks!..... |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
"Wayne.B" wrote in message ... http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. Did someone forget to let everything go? At the start of the clip, the helm seems to be steering in the right direction, but the boat wasn't answering to his turning the wheel. Too small a rudder? Dennis. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
In article , Wayne.B wrote:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. Has that thing not got a keel? Through parts of that video you could see the sails filling from the low side but still she wouldn't come up-right. I like the bit at the end, they were *really* moving, completely different ball game from the type of racing I've done. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
"Justin C" wrote in message ... In article , Wayne.B wrote: http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. Has that thing not got a keel? Through parts of that video you could see the sails filling from the low side but still she wouldn't come up-right. Could be a swing-keel, out to the "wrong" side, and held there by the hydraulics. So easy to forget when you go onto a run! Dennis. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:28:27 -0000, "Dennis Pogson"
wrote: "Wayne.B" wrote in message .. . http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. Did someone forget to let everything go? At the start of the clip, the helm seems to be steering in the right direction, but the boat wasn't answering to his turning the wheel. Too small a rudder? Good questions but it's not clear from the video what was keeping them from easing the main. My guess is that the main sheet became fouled in some way but I dont know. They were flying a spinnaker so it's possible that some mix up on the foredeck was involved. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
"Wayne.B" wrote
http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db "Dennis Pogson" wrote: Did someone forget to let everything go? At the start of the clip, the helm seems to be steering in the right direction, but the boat wasn't answering to his turning the wheel. Too small a rudder? Doubt it's too small a rudder, looked to me like a "death roll" where the boat gets too much windward heel and spins out in the opposite direction of a traditional broach. Could have been the canting keel did it to them. It looked to me like the spinnaker was pretty much under control. They certainly weren't execting it, nobody was near the runners much less the mainsheet. Poor *******s looked kinda cold, too Fresh Breezes- Doug |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message ... "Wayne.B" wrote in message ... http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. Did someone forget to let everything go? At the start of the clip, the helm seems to be steering in the right direction, but the boat wasn't answering to his turning the wheel. Too small a rudder? I heard a guy ask if anyone had a knife and I saw him sawing away at the rope that was holding in the mainsail shortly afterwards. It did not seem to be the mainsheet. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:15:18 +0100, "Edgar"
wrote: I heard a guy ask if anyone had a knife and I saw him sawing away at the rope that was holding in the mainsail shortly afterwards. It did not seem to be the mainsheet. I missed that. Maybe they had a boom preventer rigged and either forgot to release it, or gybed accidently as part of a roll and broach situation. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
Edgar wrote:
"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message I heard a guy ask if anyone had a knife and I saw him sawing away at the rope that was holding in the mainsail shortly afterwards. It did not seem to be the mainsheet. I heard the knife comment too and wondered why they are speaking English. I'm not clear on the nature of what was going on at all. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
Wayne.B a écrit :
http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. Ther was an explanation onto "sailing anarchy" : "From Nick Bubb, Watch Leader on Kosatka, Team Russia: My personal highlight of the race so far was the other morning; big rolling seas, overcast sky, freezing water, 40 knots of breeze, A6 (fractional spinnaker) and 2 reefs, fully stacked aft, Mikey on the pumps Jez trimming, me on the wheel. We were just blasting along with prolonged periods pf over 30 knots boat speed and a max speed of 34 knots. However this was then followed by near disaster as soon after the watch change, Mikey and I were in the bow bailing out when we heard the boat take off, down what must have been a huge wave, as we hit the bottom, with nowhere to go, the boat had to either roll into the breeze and broach or Chinese gybe (an accidental gybe). Unfortunately the helmsman was powerless to control her and we `chinesed.' There was carnage on deck and down below. Sail stack in the water, keel on the wrong side, crew clipped on half underwater, runners on the wrong side, boom in the air, spinnaker in the rig, boat half under water, kit everywhere down below as various missiles launched themselves at the off watch. After what seemed like an eternity we sorted the keel out, completed the gybe, got the kite down and gybed back to our proper course, all very relieved still to have a rig in the boat!!" Thanks to Luc Habert for the information. Regards. Michel. |
Good video of a gybe gone wrong in gnarly conditions
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:52:33 +0100, Michel Pineau
wrote: Wayne.B a écrit : http://link.brightcove.com/services/...tid=2764360001 or http://tinyurl.com/5vd2db They get it going again towards the end of the video and it looks like they are making at least 20 kts through big waves. Ther was an explanation onto "sailing anarchy" : "From Nick Bubb, Watch Leader on Kosatka, Team Russia: My personal highlight of the race so far was the other morning; big rolling seas, overcast sky, freezing water, 40 knots of breeze, A6 (fractional spinnaker) and 2 reefs, fully stacked aft, Mikey on the pumps Jez trimming, me on the wheel. We were just blasting along with prolonged periods pf over 30 knots boat speed and a max speed of 34 knots. However this was then followed by near disaster as soon after the watch change, Mikey and I were in the bow bailing out when we heard the boat take off, down what must have been a huge wave, as we hit the bottom, with nowhere to go, the boat had to either roll into the breeze and broach or Chinese gybe (an accidental gybe). Unfortunately the helmsman was powerless to control her and we `chinesed.' There was carnage on deck and down below. Sail stack in the water, keel on the wrong side, crew clipped on half underwater, runners on the wrong side, boom in the air, spinnaker in the rig, boat half under water, kit everywhere down below as various missiles launched themselves at the off watch. After what seemed like an eternity we sorted the keel out, completed the gybe, got the kite down and gybed back to our proper course, all very relieved still to have a rig in the boat!!" Thanks to Luc Habert for the information. Regards. Michel. ====================================== Thank you. |
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