Chinese Gybe

[Mirelle]

The odd thing is, a junk rig cannot do one!

I had always thought that a Chinese gybe occurs when the boom "skies" during an accidental gybe, in such a way as to leave the head of the sail on one side of the mast and the foot of the sail on the other.

Now, a taut kicking strap makes this an impossibility, but so does a fully battened junk sail!



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[Gunfleet]

Or a chinaman? That is a googly bowled by a left hander... ie a ball bowled as an off cutter which goes back as a leg spin. Obviously (obviously) bowled by a left hander it's a leg spin which goes back as an off cutter. Unless of course the batsman is left handed in which case all the above is reversed... and in any case left handers love bowlers of wrong 'uns. Isn't it nice to write something even more unintelligible than wot those jocks write from time to time?

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[FullCircle]

All I remember is being flat in the water with the boom and main up in the sky, and suddenly it crashing down taking the running backstays with it, thus making the rig a tad unstable on one tack, then wobbling upright again with a kite full of water. Of how we laughed at the thought of 10000 quids worth of rig about to come apart. I only remember the worst ones though. We have done loads of more little ones down the years.

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[BustinAround]

Yeah me agrees, but the reason for the actual gybe has nothing to do with the rudder...

The final roll is the one the one to windward that takes the center of effort of the rig far enough to windward to cause the boat to bear away and gybe. If you have a spinnaker up, then that bearing away also causes the spinnaker to pull the boat over further, very much like grant dalton did in the entrance to sydney harbour in the last volvo!
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[boatless]

Well, bit of both, hadn't wanted to get over techie. Yes the rig is pushing it round with more and more force on each increasing roll, but the last (and very spectacular 12Kt plus) one that I did - the rudder certainly had lost the will to help me!

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