Boom Control

[Supertramp]

Perhaps the Twizzle Rig is the answer?

Something I need to play with as I kept the old genoa as the foil has a second track.

Something like this. Takes some effort to set up but a comfortable and safe way to sail dead downwind. I have a hank on Solent but the principle is the same. Separate sheets with a long release line make it easy to reduce sail or change course leaving the poles in place. Missing on the genoa as i broke the snap shackle the previous day. Wichard only now.

 

[Snowgoose-1]

This video is 5 minutes 40 seconds.
I think it would be difficult to rig a preventer/brake with the number of crew about. A brake might have been nice though. What a big wheel.

 

[westernman]

This video is 5 minutes 40 seconds.
I think it would be difficult to rig a preventer/brake with the number of crew about. A brake might have been nice though. What a big wheel.

That doesn't look very Chinese to me.
I thought that a Chinese gybe is where the upper part of the main changes to the new tack, but the bottom part does not.

 

[Snowgoose-1]

That doesn't look very Chinese to me.
I thought that a Chinese gybe is where the upper part of the main changes to the new tack, but the bottom part does not.

Korean ?

 

[capnsensible]

I've always understood a Chinese gybe to be when a boat rolls away from the boom causing the boom to fly across.

It may be Korean too...but I don't want to be.....dog matic.... about that.

 

[Roberto]

I thought that a Chinese gybe is where the upper part of the main changes to the new tack, but the bottom part does not.

+1
At least one etymology if from junk rigs with very deep and slender mainsails throughout the luff with long battens, the boom is brought to the new tack while the head of the sail remains on the previous one.

Add. The reference was indicated in sailing/seamanship manuals until the 50/60s, when the kicker +new fabrics etc were introduced and the twist in Marconi rigs could be better controlled. IIRC the Glenans book 1st edition (61/62) showed indeed the drawing of a junk with a snake-like mainsail and a puzzled skipper.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Here is the same video but annotated to discuss how to avoid a spinnikat accidental gybe.

 

[oldbloke]

In a dinghy you would call it a death roll. Very wet and usually involving a long swim back to the boat

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Ah, death roles, sanguine smiles at the back of the fleet.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

In a dinghy you would call it a death roll. Very wet and usually involving a long swim back to the boat

Oddly, in a vintage keelboat the ‘death roll’ is fast. As long as you don’t actually ship water of course. Hideously uncomfortable, particularly for the crew, hiking on the downhill side to hold the boom forwards.