Rick:
I understand what you are saying.....an accidental gybe can happen any
time and injure/kill someone as well as damage gear.
Our experience was similar to what Martin DeYoung described.
In our case, when it happened, I ended up on my stomach on the coach
roof holding on, in water up to my waist, the boat lying on its
starboard side, boom held off to port, cockpit filled with water and no
one knew what to do or for that matter, had any chance to do anything.
I was able to slither over just enough to reach the preventer on the
boom and cut it. Somehow, she righted herself.
We had the preventer running from the boom to a block on the toerail,
then back to the cockpit, port side. However, when the gybe happened,
the crew got thrown to starboard and were floating in the cockpit not
able to reach the preventer to release it and/or the spin sheet as the
chute went out the 'backdoor'.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2016-04-12 7:38 PM, Rick Taillieu via CnC-List wrote:
Rob,
You should be very glad that you had the preventer on.
I was at the C&C Owner’s Regatta at NYC in 2001, on the Sunday a cold
front went through with gusts to 50kts (this was the same front that
capsized the trimaran during the Mac race).
The winds had died down some by race time so we decided to go out.
Another squall line went through the offshore course while we were
racing and a C&C 35 Mk3 broached, the boom hit one of the crew on the
head as it swung across, killing him.
The boom flying across during a crash jybe can do a lot of damage to
the crew or the boat.
Rick Taillieu
Nemesis
'75 C&C 25 #371
Shearwater Yacht Club
Halifax, NS.
*From:*CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] *On Behalf Of
*robert via CnC-List
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*Cc:* robert
*Subject:* Stus-List Preventer
Joel:
I am no expert on this but if your block on a genoa track can handle a
tightly loaded jib sheet it should handle the load of the main sail
from an accidental gybe......if the preventer is fastened without any
slack, there should be no jolt in the preventer......just the pressure
on it as the main is held in place and the boat lays on its side and
hopefully runs up.
Been there done that....Marblehead Race....C&C 33 MKII....spin run,
following sea....preventer.....accidental gybe in a 5 ft. following
sea.....really ugly but the boat, rigging, sails and crew all
survived. Really wished that day we had not had a 'preventer'.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
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