[Rhodes22-list] High Seas Sailing

[Rick]

Chris,

With 3 men, or about 600# in the boat, I've sailed at about 45 deg into a 20
knot wind with 3 to 5 foot waves.  Boom down, jib sheets inside and both
sails furled to 50%.

Single handed, it's tough to keep the boat on tack due to heading up a lot.

Rick

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:48 PM, cowie <ccowie at cowieassociates.com> wrote:

>
> I went sailing this past Monday from Herrington Harbor to Thomas Point
> light
> and back.  The wind was blowing pretty steady and over 10 kts the entire
> time.  At about 10 kts I found I could reasonably manage a full main with
> the boom down and the 175 Genoa out about 1/3 of the way.  Between a close
> haul and broad reach I was easily running over 5 kts pushing the gps beyond
> 6 as I raced down the following sea.  My sail back from Thomas Point Light
> required tacking several times on as close haul as I could get.  At this
> point the wind was kicking up to at least 15 kts gust closer to 20.  This
> much wind out of the South and an outgoing tide made for some pretty
> significant sea action.  I found the best I could sail with that much wind
> was about 130-140 degrees.  I did position the jib sheets betwen the outer
> and inner shrouds back to the winch and cleat and this helped some.  At a
> 130 degree tack I was able to manage between 2.8 and 3.5 kts pounding into
> the building seas.  I began to fall off the wind as I made my approach to
> Herring Bay and the shallows of Long Bar aggrivated the seas even more.  A
> couple of waves came crashing over the cockpit as I experimented trying to
> head up, broadside or run with the increasingly angry sea.  I am curious to
> hear how others have managed trying to sail close hauled, broad reach and
> run in winds between 15-20kts and with an angry breaking sea in the 3-4
> foot
> range.  I think I could manage to handle a little more wind than this but
> not in an aggitated sea state.
>
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