Bob Groves and Easy Go

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  • 12 Jan 2016 10:04
    Reply # 3754009 on 3741620
    Anonymous member (Administrator)

    If you go back to my posting   1446580  in 2013 (this was before I had even tried my FUP on Frøken Sørensen), I suggested adding a second  (“offshore”)FUP, running parallel with the first “inshore version”, but then terminating it up at the tip of the yard. David Tyler then suggested trying it with a span between the yard and upper batten ( posting  1449203 ), which makes sense.

    Since I don’t do ocean voyaging, I guess I will do fine with my single FUP:  That may let the two top (fully lowered) panels fan up for a moment, but the FUP will clamp the batten 2 (from top) to the bundle and thus prevent serious problems.

    Arne

     

  • 12 Jan 2016 02:36
    Reply # 3753147 on 3752944
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    Arne Kverneland wrote:
    Gary King wrote:
    Annie Hill wrote:H/McL's yard downhaul might have done the job.  We had them on Badger, but for all I know, so did Bob.  Certainly they gave me peace of mind, but maybe we were just lucky.
    yes, we have the yard downhauls too, and that would keep a sheeted out bundle under control.


    Bob Groves had used that downhaul, but had then removed it, see posting 1448977

    Arne

     

    Had a read of it, he finished with "Wish I had left it in place!".  The yard downhaul has proven useful to us (It was that thread which spurred me to install it) for dousing in situations when wind pins it against the mast. Keeping the bundle from fanning is a bonus.
  • 12 Jan 2016 02:08
    Reply # 3753125 on 3741620
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    Our Freedom 40 has a really large poop deck and center cockpit, and I've always wondered what the proper storm tactics would be - other than avoiding them.  Running with the wind has some advantages with regards to steerage and speed made good, but the transom hung rudder may be more susceptible to damage, and how safely can one turn the bow into the wind if that tactic becomes more preferred?  Junk sails don't really come to play in this, I think.


    Erik

  • 11 Jan 2016 23:16
    Reply # 3752944 on 3752935
    Anonymous member (Administrator)
    Gary King wrote:
    Annie Hill wrote:H/McL's yard downhaul might have done the job.  We had them on Badger, but for all I know, so did Bob.  Certainly they gave me peace of mind, but maybe we were just lucky.
    yes, we have the yard downhauls too, and that would keep a sheeted out bundle under control.


    Bob Groves had used that downhaul, but had then removed it, see posting 1448977

    Arne

     

  • 11 Jan 2016 23:02
    Reply # 3752935 on 3752727
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    Annie Hill wrote:H/McL's yard downhaul might have done the job.  We had them on Badger, but for all I know, so did Bob.  Certainly they gave me peace of mind, but maybe we were just lucky.
    yes, we have the yard downhauls too, and that would keep a sheeted out bundle under control.
  • 11 Jan 2016 21:04
    Reply # 3752727 on 3741620
    H/McL's yard downhaul might have done the job.  We had them on Badger, but for all I know, so did Bob.  Certainly they gave me peace of mind, but maybe we were just lucky.
  • 11 Jan 2016 16:25
    Reply # 3752291 on 3751136
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    Gary King wrote:

    My reading of the story was Bob doused both sails, so doesn't matter which one first. Fanning up from a bundle sounds radical, need a huge gust for that to happen (70+ knot?), but i think Easy Go's battens are really light, skinny 25mm alu tubes.

    Also sheeting out the bundle isn't necessary in 40 knots, bare poles is enough to propel along at 4 knots or so. Sheeted in there is no way a fan up could happen, not that would have saved her. There’s still the issue of comfort and nutrition for the crew.

    Bob knew his boat well, but was exhausted. Big swell, and/or waves, boat dips deep at the bow, sheets work loose: maybe up goes the bundle. Arne's fan-up preventer might have stopped it, or a line up, over and if doable round the bundle to hold it down in the boom crutch. If sheeting the bundle out then obviously you can't hold the bundle down in its crutch. Might have been possible to wrap the line around the bundle before easing the mega-reefed sail out. Operative word is 'might'; depends on your condition at the time.
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  • 11 Jan 2016 10:01
    Reply # 3751809 on 3741620
    Anonymous member (Administrator)

    There is little doubt that the fan-up of the mainsail on on Easy Go made his problems escalate badly. But this matter has been up in two long threads before. Could I suggest you have a look at them (with Bob’s own comments)?

    Fan-ups and prevention (formerly 'One of those days') 
    http://www.junkrigassociation.org/yachtclubbar/1076248?mlpg=3

    and ...

     

    Gybing a junk (..including the matter of fan-up...) 

    http://www.junkrigassociation.org/general_forum/1201045?tpg=13 

     

    Arne

     

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  • 11 Jan 2016 00:46
    Reply # 3751136 on 3741620
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    My reading of the story was Bob doused both sails, so doesn't matter which one first. Fanning up from a bundle sounds radical, need a huge gust for that to happen (70+ knot?), but i think Easy Go's battens are really light, skinny 25mm alu tubes.

    Also sheeting out the bundle isn't necessary in 40 knots, bare poles is enough to propel along at 4 knots or so. Sheeted in there is no way a fan up could happen, not that would have saved her. There’s still the issue of comfort and nutrition for the crew.

    From our experience it doesn't take much of a blow to make cooking impossible, 35 knots and steep 5' waves would do it, maybe a gimballed stove would have been a better idea, because its cold canned food from then on. Several days of that makes life hard, but fortunately we've never gone more than 6 to 7 hours like that.

    I think there are potentially similar conditions on the east coast of Aust, a 3 to 4 knot south setting current against that super storm, 70+knots southerly, there were reportedly 30 to 40' swells out there.

  • 10 Jan 2016 18:37
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    Although we never experienced anything like the conditions that Bob was sailing in, our technique in our Sunbird 32 (see the January 2016 boat of the month) for sailing downwind in anything heavy was also to haul the foresail in to the centre-line and drive with the main. Both would be reefed appropriately, chickens that we are. This plan was a also good in big swells and light winds: the foresail acting like a fan to swat any rolling. The reverse configuration worked but I always felt it prudent to use the strongest mast for strenuous work, especially in increasing or gusty winds.

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