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Gloss
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Response Posted - 05/16/2004 : 20:14:48

And to think that this thread was started by me trying to tip over my boat, and having fun trying to do it.

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falco_esq
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Response Posted - 05/17/2004 : 22:26:33

Woow. I better know about this stuff. I now what a broach is, we almost had one in the Tri-State last year on a 42' foot Comet. SCARY. Wasn't scared until it was over though. Just to get my terms right, what do you mean by round-up?

If I feel that she is keeling to much, and I just let the sails out, she will come down right? And if I let the tiller go, it will just turn into the wind right? That's how it was on my Hobies.

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Gloss
 Yesterday I was stuck with race duty at our local sailing club. No wind, so race cancelled, so I worked on the boat instead. By late afternoon it started blowing about 10 knots all of a sudden. Here in Knoxville that's a blow. So I cast off and proceeded to sail single handed.
We got some harder momentary gusts too.
I have a newly mounted Plastimo Contest 101 compass mounted in the port bulkhead (still have to hook up the wiring) and this compass also shows heel angle.
Lately I have been trying to see just what my 89 tall rig wing can take so I have been trying to heel her over just for grins. I hit 37 degrees.
So here's my questions. What is the maximun heel any of you have gotten out of your winged boats? Is there a point where I will tip over (help, I've fallen and can't get up) Will a wing self right itself if I do tip over. I guesse I really should put in the hatch boards and button her up when I do this.
The worst thing that happened is that the blender fell off the top of the stove. I hope it isn't broken, that would be a tragedy (the young lady I had out on Saturday really enjoyed the frozen margaritas while sunning herself, looked good too) Sorry for the digression, I'm easily distracted, but what say you about angle of heel?
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 05/18/2004 : 09:38:00

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">what do you mean by round-up?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">When a sailboat is heeling excessively, it often reaches a point at which the rudder begins to lift out of the water. When there isn't enough rudder surface left in the water to overcome the boat's weather helm, the boat abruptly turns directly into the wind. When the boat turns into the wind under those circumstances, it is called a "round-up." It isn't particularly dangerous, but it's startling when it happens.

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 05/18/2004 : 10:26:09

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Steve Milby
 It isn't particularly dangerous, but it's startling when it happens.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Depending on how close another boat is to windward.

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Greg Jackson
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Response Posted - 05/19/2004 : 22:02:38

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by dlucier
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Greg Jackson
 I agree with most of what the Great Lakes Singlehanded Society says about safety. I think I can lay claim to both the smallest boat, and the only Catalina 25, to have ever completed a GLSS race...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Congratulations on meeting the challenge Greg.

Participating in the Chicago-to-Mackinac solo challenge is very impressive. I see your time was 86 hours 59 minutes 18 seconds. That has to be a record for a C25 in any distance race, let alone a singlehanded one. One day I hope to become a member of the GLSS, which is why I attended their safety seminar last year.

For those who are unfamiliar with the [url="http://webhost.sailnet.com/glss/"]Great Lakes Singlehanded Society[/url]...

"The Great Lakes Singlehanded Society is an organization established for the perpetuation of the sport of solo sailing. Its purpose is twofold, the first being to encourage the development of suitable techniques, equipment, and gear for shorthanded passage under sail; its second being the recognition of accomplishments of singlehanded sailors in the Great Lakes region.

Membership in the society is conveyed only to those individuals who successfully complete the Port Huron to Mackinac Island Singlehanded Challenge or the Chicago to Mackinac Singlehanded Challenge. The satisfactory completion of either of these challenges is viewed as a singularly significant individual accomplishment. The society views all who do so as winners of this event."

What is special about this society is that they don't look at these events so much as races, but as personal challenges, and as was stated above, just finishing a challenge is considered winning.

Anything particularly memorable about your challenge, Greg?
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