My dad taught me how to heave to on our 1971 C&C 27. As Rick says, it's great for socializing in any amount of air. We hove to for a couple of hours one year in fairly light airs halfway between Bermuda and St Martin so we could eat Thanksgiving dinner, on many other occasions, a reefed main or mizzen and a mostly furled jib have let us be comfortable in big breeze and huge seas. The main thing to remember other than what I've seen here is that how hard the main is sheeted determines your angle to the wind and seas. Ease it to let your bow fall off more; sheet in to point more into the breeze. I usually heave to if we encounter strong head winds at sea, and I expect them to shift. There's no sense bashing up the boat and crew if the wind is going to shift or ease in a few hours or a day.
Andy Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:40 PM, "Rick Brass" <rickbr...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I heave-to with Belle fairly frequently to socialize, eat lunch, sunbathe, > etc. She has a 155 headsail most of the time, and occasionally in higher > winds a 110 lapper. > > To heave-to on starboard tack I start on port and sheet in the genoa tight as > I turn into the wind. Boom is close to the centerline of the boat. Once the > boat stalls and the genoa is back winded, the boat will start to fall off to > starboard. Tiller goes as far to port as possible and gets lashed off. > Traveler is moved up or down until the boat stops and oscillation is > acceptable. Generally the end of the boom is about 1 to 2 feet below the > centerline of the boat. I adjust the mainsheet and vang, and the genoa cars, > as needed to spill wind out of the top of the sails depending on how hard the > wind is blowing. > > In lighter winds the boat basically parks. I’ve done it a time or two in a > brief squall, and the boat makes headway and leeway at around ½ knot. > > Practice in wind under 10 knots, it is pretty easy to do. > > > Rick Brass > Imzadi -1976 C&C 38 mk1 > la Belle Aurore -1975 C&C 25 mk1 > Washington, NC > > > > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Mark G > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 1:33 PM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Subject: Stus-List Heaving-to > > > After 6 years of experimenting on an infrequent basis I was finally able to > easily and repeatedly heave-to my 25 Mk1 this year. I sail with a 135-140% > Genoa on a furler. On the day everything clicked it was furled to about > 100-110%. Since then, I have made furling the Genoa to 100-110% the first > step of heaving-to. It makes sense to me that, since heaving-to is all about > balancing the sails, sail area forward would be a significant factor. But on > a boat without a furler this can't be accomplished without a sail change, > etc. So I'm thinking the same thing might be accomplished by positioning the > main sail with the sheet or the traveler. Can anybody weigh in on their > experience, particularly with the 25 Mk1? > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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