Is this what's called a broach?

[Zen Zero]

Watch the video a few times!

They're all wearing self inflating lifejackets but are they clipped on? Should they be?

 

[prv]

are they clipped on? Should they be?

On a fully-crewed racing boat? No.

Pete

 

[DJE]

Nice to know that the automatic lifejackets work though.

 

[flaming]

Not a broach, it's a round down leading into a gybe, a broach would have gone the other way. This move is commonly known as a "Chinese gybe". Quite a good example!

Here's our version - also complete with auto firing of a lifejacket!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O47lVjMfzE

And no, harnesses are not appropriate for that situation.

 

[Keen_Ed]

Depends who you talk to. Old school sailors who remember the days of the IOR - when people used to antifoul their spreaders - would call it a leeward broach.

 

[mjcoon]

Old school sailors who remember the days of the IOR - when people used to antifoul their spreaders ...

Nice one! Might stop fouling by seagulls, too!

Mike.

 

[Zen Zero]

Here's our version - also complete with auto firing of a lifejacket!

Nice film! Thanks. So you let go of the spi halyard to get upright, then recover the spi from the water while continuing to run downwind under main?

And no, harnesses are not appropriate for that situation.

Yes I can see that and I realise it was a silly question now. Unless you want to do lacework with the lifelines!

 

[flaming]

Nice film! Thanks. So you let go of the spi halyard to get upright, then recover the spi from the water while continuing to run downwind under main?

Yes. But with a caveat. It worked because we accelerated fast when we popped up, so the sail was just skipping over the surface. If you allow the kite to sink you have to stop, and then it's the devil's own job to get the thing back on board.

And it's altogether best if you can manage to keep the thing out of the water altogether, but I've only ever managed that once in a chinese recovery!

 

[Danbury]

Nice film! Thanks. So you let go of the spi halyard to get upright, then recover the spi from the water while continuing to run downwind under main?

We usually blow the sheet... that way the kite is still free to get blown out for'ard... and will be pulled up from the water as you come upright...