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essen48183
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Initially Posted - 08/04/2009 :  12:50:04  Show Profile  Visit essen48183's Homepage
Went for a sail yesterday with the intent to have some fun and practice entering and exiting a Hove -to state. I read on here somewhere that this was difficult on the 250 with wheel steering due to a lesser amount of hard over... and I wanted to get it down or know if it was not possible.

Winds at nearest bouy were 19 - 24 mph gusting to between 27 and 31 mph for the several hours we were out there, mostly 1-2 foot chop with some occasional waves that would've pulled the XL shaft outboard out of the water (had it been in). Single reef in main and full 110 jib out... simulating harder winds with a bit of extra cloth flying.

The boat handled beautifully and hove-to easily and exited gracefully. in those conditions with that cloth the boat settled down quite a bit and rode a solid steady 1-2 mph course to windward with helm locked not quite all the way over... adjustment in main sheet slack allowed the boat to seek a position and stop hunting a course. Could have used the head, thrown a lifering, or probably reefed the mainsail with success.

Next windy day, we'll try some overboard drills. Just have to put life insurance on the wife, first.

Essen Davis
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Response Posted - 08/04/2009 :  19:04:06  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Next windy day, we'll try some overboard drills. Just have to put life insurance on the wife, first.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Essen,
I'm reasonably sure you're joking, but to be sure, MOB drills with live participants are a really bad idea. For a sobering report, read [url="http://www.ussailing.org/safety/Studies/COB.pdf"]US Sailing COB symposium of 2005[/url].
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essen48183
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Response Posted - 08/04/2009 :  22:16:33  Show Profile  Visit essen48183's Homepage
complete joke. I may risk a tennis ball, though :-)
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Response Posted - 08/05/2009 :  04:40:12  Show Profile
Several years ago when I took a weekend of sailing lessons, the instructor indicated we would do a man overboard drill the last afternoon, we went all through procedures etc and then with no warning the instructor jumped overboard with a PFD attached. No iron genny allowed either. On the second attempt we grabbed the PFD with a boat hook and brought him too stern ladder, not sure we could have gotten the whole body aboard without additional bodies going in.
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