Do you own a blue Westerly Centaur moored Emsworth Channel........

[wooslehunter]

........just east of the visitors pontoon? Plus a warning note to all.

The foresail sheets were not made off. The bottom 1/3 of the sail unwound itself from the roller & flogged itself to death and ripped the leach.

I rolled it up & made off the sheets yesterday but the damage has already been done.

The problem is that if the sheets are not made off or the sail doesn't have a tie round it, the clew can become loose in th wind. It unwraps itself while wrapping the loose sheets around the rest untill they are tight enough to stop more sail unwrapping. It just blows around the roller. The roller doesn't need to rotate.

 

[barfly4657]

Neglected yacht in the Emsworth Channel

Report to Chichester HM VHF Ch14 or tel 0243 512301.

 

[Wansworth]

Well done ,although in these times your action could be mis construde,still common sense ruled the action!

 

[Rabbie]

I have lost count of the times I have taken the same action. Ditto sleep-destroying clanking halyards!

 

[jason -and the arguenauts]

The problem is that if the sheets are not made off or the sail doesn't have a tie round it, the clew can become loose in th wind. It unwraps itself while wrapping the loose sheets around the rest untill they are tight enough to stop more sail unwrapping. It just blows around the roller. The roller doesn't need to rotate.

Not my boat but thanks for that tip.

 

[johnalison]

A tie will help, but if I'm leaving the boat without the jib-cover on I always wrap the spinnaker-halyard round the jib in a tight spiral and fix at the base. It only takes a few seconds.

 

[BelleSerene]

or else take a short length of rope, let off main & spinnaker halyard jammers, and then by the mast tie a bowline in the line around both the main & spinnaker halyards, and tie a rolling hitch in the other end of it around a shroud, and pull the knot down the shroud. Tighten the two jammers. Then both halyards rise to the top of the mast from way away from the mast to port or stbd, so they can't clink and also the mainsail can't be pulled up by the wind. That's what I do anyway.