Going forward in a blow

[Spacewaist]

To weather - and if Ive got loose stitching on my harness I buy another - or use someone else's. Its my life we're dealing with.

LOOK OUT!!! Behind y.......! Five more hoots and you're history!

 

[Twister_Ken]

For sunbathing

and admiring women (huh!) I use the garden.

1. it doesn't move
2. ample supplies of comestibles to hand
3. pear tree from which to sling hammock
4. no arseing about with anchors
5. no motorboat wash to make ice chink in glasses.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

you can get them restitched professionally i am sure. but as you say it is your life so pay for new one and get it double stitched!
donot forget to check jackstays
altho a few of the losses in sydney to hobart appeared to be failing harnesses so there is a lesson there. who has checked their's recently.

Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer

 

[dickh]

Definately on the windward side - much easier and you can see what you are doing without struggling past sails etc.
I have always checked my harnesses each winter and washed them in fresh water as well.
Jackstays - I have webbing ones but intend to replace them this winter as I don't know the strength of the original, they have certainly faded a lot - I suspect they are about 10 yrs old. After I have got my new ones, with snapshackles, so I can easily remove them to avoid UV degradation, I will get the old ones tested to destruction to see where and how they failed and will post the results on the forum.

dickh
I'd rather be sailing...

 

[pugwash]

Thanks for...

...all the good advice. All sorts of elements I hadn't considered. I'll be taking the High Road from now on.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: Thanks for...

yes
remember to pass it onto whoever you send up there from now on ;-)

Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer

 

[PeteMcK]

Or the main sheet decides to uncleat

Me neither!

 

[claymore]

Uphill or downhill - one therefore has to assume that one is going upwind in this blow. Now why on earth would one want to be doing that?

regards
Claymore

 

[petery]

Harness and halyard ?

Having read this thread over the past couple of days, I poked my head out of the harbour to try my new storm staysail yesterday - and it got jammed and I had to go forward!

It struck me that if I wore my harness clipped on to the jack stay and also clipped on the halyard I use for the cruising chute - suitably cleated off - I would have the best of both worlds going forward.

I didn't try it because I thought there might be snags that I had not thought of - any comments or advice?

 

[kds]

Uffa Fox solved the problem years ago - The Fairey Atalanta was designed so that you never needed to go on deck. Everything at the mast could be handled from the main hatch and everything at the forestay from the fore-hatch. The bows were so bouyant that this is possible in even the most intimidating seas. Does get a bit damp below - but it does anyway, doesn't it ?

Check out some pictures of my boat at;
[link]www.canongrange.co.uk/boat/[link]

 

[Guest]

Re: Lost the plot!

Jimi writes

> although in reality if you're well heeled and a bit of a sea running you'd probably heave to first.

If you are really well heeled then get the paid crew to do all the hard work.

Regards




Fred

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.