Chinese Gybe in Southern Ocean
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Heckler
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Holy smoly!!
savageseadog
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Helmsman------------------"It's the crew"
Crew--------------------------"It's the helmsman"
Crew--------------------------"It's the helmsman"
CPD
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/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Tiddleywinks anyone ?
Phoenix of Hamble
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Yeah... on deck in the Southern Ocean... you up for it? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Athene V30
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What was that you were saying the other week about JAWS?
If I look at too many things like that I may go off the Azores! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
If I look at too many things like that I may go off the Azores! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Racecruiser
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No I don't! That gets close to showing what it must be like - imagine in darkness.
What would the panel sooner do? The Volvo (downwind in the southern ocean but less so since the new course changes) or the old BT Challenge (upwind).
Both are crazy I reckon but upwind probably more so and it must feel like it will never end.
Oh, and one you pay for and one they pay you!
What would the panel sooner do? The Volvo (downwind in the southern ocean but less so since the new course changes) or the old BT Challenge (upwind).
Both are crazy I reckon but upwind probably more so and it must feel like it will never end.
Oh, and one you pay for and one they pay you!
flaming
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No I don't! That gets close to showing what it must be like - imagine in darkness.
What would the panel sooner do? The Volvo (downwind in the southern ocean but less so since the new course changes) or the old BT Challenge (upwind).
Both are crazy I reckon but upwind probably more so and it must feel like it will never end.
Oh, and one you pay for and one they pay you!
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I'll take the TP52 medcup. I like a beer after racing too much!
No I don't! That gets close to showing what it must be like - imagine in darkness.
What would the panel sooner do? The Volvo (downwind in the southern ocean but less so since the new course changes) or the old BT Challenge (upwind).
Both are crazy I reckon but upwind probably more so and it must feel like it will never end.
Oh, and one you pay for and one they pay you!
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I'll take the TP52 medcup. I like a beer after racing too much!
johnalison
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Has the definition of a Chinese gybe changed? It used to mean that the boom gybed without a kicking-strap leaving the belly of the sail on the other side, i.e. half the mainsail each side.
flaming
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Has the definition of a Chinese gybe changed? It used to mean that the boom gybed without a kicking-strap leaving the belly of the sail on the other side, i.e. half the mainsail each side.
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I think it has. To me a chinese gybe has always been a round down broach into an accidental gybe, and is used this way by everyone I sail with and against.
I have heard it used as you describe, but only by old sailor types with beards and gaff cutters.
Has the definition of a Chinese gybe changed? It used to mean that the boom gybed without a kicking-strap leaving the belly of the sail on the other side, i.e. half the mainsail each side.
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I think it has. To me a chinese gybe has always been a round down broach into an accidental gybe, and is used this way by everyone I sail with and against.
I have heard it used as you describe, but only by old sailor types with beards and gaff cutters.
StephenSails
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What is a V70 doing in the Southern Ocean at the moment, is there a race going on then?
And surely that was a "Crazy Ivan" not a Chinese Gybe?!?!
LOL
And surely that was a "Crazy Ivan" not a Chinese Gybe?!?!
LOL
Twister_Ken
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Didn't realise I could speak Russian. But I must do, as I understood every word.
kingfisher
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Accidental gybe: unexpected/uncontrolled gybe
Chinese gybe: typical for gaffers: boom lifts and goes one way, gaff stays on the other side, creating an hour glass shape in the main, or a large tear.
I had a chinese gybe with the genua last summer. Running in a F6, gybing and bottom half the genua goes to port , top half stays wrapped around the forestay. Tried tacking next, and she just lay in irons. Luckily by that time we arrived.
Crewing in VOR? No thanks.
Chinese gybe: typical for gaffers: boom lifts and goes one way, gaff stays on the other side, creating an hour glass shape in the main, or a large tear.
I had a chinese gybe with the genua last summer. Running in a F6, gybing and bottom half the genua goes to port , top half stays wrapped around the forestay. Tried tacking next, and she just lay in irons. Luckily by that time we arrived.
Crewing in VOR? No thanks.
Spyro
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Not helped by a canting keel being on the wrong side when she went over.
tcm
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in a panic they revert to English, much easier.
