bumblefish
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So if the Bukh is knackered, can I get in the Jester Challenge on an Elizabethan 30 (29' 6'')? No need for an engine for weeks!
Engineless
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EASLOOP
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A soul mate. See my longish thread under Crankshaft and camshaft. All about my Bukh DV10 - duff rings, no compression etc.
Let me know how you get on engineless. i will be practicing most of the summer. Won't be able to do the engine till next autumn. Scared Sh**less I will be trying to sail onto my moorings and running into some expensive gin palace.
Let me know how you get on engineless. i will be practicing most of the summer. Won't be able to do the engine till next autumn. Scared Sh**less I will be trying to sail onto my moorings and running into some expensive gin palace.
Mirelle
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Almost Engineless
The death of my MD2 in mid-cruise last year caused the purchase of:
- a slightly less tired MD2
- a Seagull 40+
- a sweep
The point about the Seagull being that if one lashes the dinghy alongside, "hipped up" on the quarter,one at least gets steerage way in calm conditions. (Thank you, Don Street!)
The MD2 is good for 3.2 knots, flat out in smooth water.
The death of my MD2 in mid-cruise last year caused the purchase of:
- a slightly less tired MD2
- a Seagull 40+
- a sweep
The point about the Seagull being that if one lashes the dinghy alongside, "hipped up" on the quarter,one at least gets steerage way in calm conditions. (Thank you, Don Street!)
The MD2 is good for 3.2 knots, flat out in smooth water.
Lakesailor
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I went out for a sail the other day and sailed off my moorings and back on very succesfully. As I now have a hank-on headsail this was new territory for me (furlers are so much easier to depower).
Our moorings are very close together so it's not often it works for me, usually only a southerly breeze will give me a clear lee "emergency exit".
Our moorings are very close together so it's not often it works for me, usually only a southerly breeze will give me a clear lee "emergency exit".
EASLOOP
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I guess the trick is to make sure of a good escape route. Have only been thinking of actually lining up with the bouy - will now look for that bolt hole as well
Cheers
Cheers
Mirelle
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Recommended reading - Francis B Cooke's books, which are very sound indeed on the handling of an engineless small cruising yacht in confined spaces, espescially on the East Coast.
One of his first points is that you should never drop the mooring with the boat dead in the water - always cast off when she is ramping up to it, so that you have steerage way.
His advice on sailing out the anchor to get off a lee shore is also very valid - if you are anything like me you will not trust this to work until you have tried it, so its a good idea to try it in the middle of Hamford Water or Stangate Creek for practice before doing it in earnest.
I'm lucky in that for much of the summer I can run up to my mooring, which is in a very tight spot towards the head of an estuary, against the early ebb tide, which makes things very easy, for one weekend out of two , i.e. the neap tide weekends, because the last of the seabreeze carries us up the river nicely.
If it's a spring tide weekend I have to be a bit cleverer and round up and luff, which I don't have very much room to do.
One of his first points is that you should never drop the mooring with the boat dead in the water - always cast off when she is ramping up to it, so that you have steerage way.
His advice on sailing out the anchor to get off a lee shore is also very valid - if you are anything like me you will not trust this to work until you have tried it, so its a good idea to try it in the middle of Hamford Water or Stangate Creek for practice before doing it in earnest.
I'm lucky in that for much of the summer I can run up to my mooring, which is in a very tight spot towards the head of an estuary, against the early ebb tide, which makes things very easy, for one weekend out of two , i.e. the neap tide weekends, because the last of the seabreeze carries us up the river nicely.
If it's a spring tide weekend I have to be a bit cleverer and round up and luff, which I don't have very much room to do.
Lakesailor
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Ah. Tides and currents do have their uses. Having no such help I have to luff up to the mooring as a rule. So if I mess it up I can only hope to back the jib and bear away from other boats as I've usually lost way by then and tacking is no longer an option. (I usually keep the motor running in neutral for safety, but managed without the other day as I was feeling confident)
Mirelle
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I remember - indeed, I still have, tucked into my first log book, a letter from my father, which read in part:
"Dropping a mooring and picking up an anchor are the easy manoevres. Dropping an anchor and picking up a mooring are the hard ones. I prefer to keep plenty of sail on, to have command of the boat. If things start to go wrong and you may hit another boat, always luff - by doing so you lose speed and you will only strike the other boat a glancing blow with the side - if you bear away and she does not answer fast enough you will strike the other boat at speed and at a broad angle, and you will do serious damage."
"Dropping a mooring and picking up an anchor are the easy manoevres. Dropping an anchor and picking up a mooring are the hard ones. I prefer to keep plenty of sail on, to have command of the boat. If things start to go wrong and you may hit another boat, always luff - by doing so you lose speed and you will only strike the other boat a glancing blow with the side - if you bear away and she does not answer fast enough you will strike the other boat at speed and at a broad angle, and you will do serious damage."
Lakesailor
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Makes sense, but if you luff up to slow for the mooring then you have to play the cards you have. At least backing the jib and setting off, initially, backwards gives you the chance to go back the way you came. Hopefully.