I realised when I wrote it that some swine would misinterpret it but I couldn't be bothered to rephrase it. As you perfectly well know, Wales is, or at least was when I last looked, quite a long way from Essex. In spite of that, a good friend on our pontoon prefers to drive to Essex rather than sail in south Wales, where he lives. His Welsh cakes, or whatever they are called, are very good.
Naa I’m to impatient to stop.Heave to. Navigate. Carry on.
What sort of yacht do you have?
Big thread-drift warning! Apologies.
Heaving too can be the most comfortable option to navigate cook or just rest a while. My autopilot cant cope with much wind or sea so its an option I use a lot when singlehanded.
I actually hove too in my first boat in F9 for 4.5 hours & went to sleep fot 3.5 hours with the knowledge that waves might be breaking over the boat, but she would still sit there making .5 kts forward in perfect balance. The mainsail would have just enough wind in it to avoid flogging. It would sit quietly.
Hanse 311
I googled. Lots of pictures, very nice. Can't see 2hy she won't heave to.
Easy. One just clips the car to port or stbd. I often rig barber haulers when going down wind as well. If it is windy & one wants to heave too one would have a reefed mainsail. The jib would not be furled so would be similar to a boat with partially furled genoa. But far more efficient
Look at the fin.
Heaving to was certainly the traditional option when shelter, rest, or just waiting was needed, but any time below can induce nausea, though lying down may make this less likely. Bending over a chart table inside a boat at sea is not my idea of fun, having done it often enough for many years. Having the navigation sorted out and the information available at the helm, by whatever means, is just a whole lot more pleasurable, and if short-handed safer by reducing fatigue. I imagine that most modern boats can be persuaded to heave to, but the improvement in motion is likely to be less than with an old heavy-displacement design.
Well it's certainly not a Hanse problem. I often sail a 445 and that heaves to easily.
Back in the day, I used to race yachts a bit. Cross Channel quite often. Through most of the year. I learnt masses about navigation in the traditional way, with dr/ep and later, Decca and RDF.
There will be a way.
What you are describing is caused by the speed you require to complete the tack.Rather than trying to heave-to by tacking and leaving the jib sheeted, try doing it be releasing both sheets and the kicker, going head to wind and allowing the boat to come to a stop. This is called "Lying-to". It's a perfectly good way to stop a boat to perform some task on board, but the sails will flog violently. The answer is to haul the lazy jib sheet across to windward, so that the sail is in the "backed" position. The bow will start to pay off . The boom will swing to the same side as the backed jib. Next, turn the tiller towards, (wheel away from), the boom. The motion induced by the backed jib and the opposed rudder should cancel one another out and the boat will lay at such an angle to the wind that the mainsail will be almost, but not quite, head to wind, having enough tension to prevent flogging, but not drawing enough wind to induce any significant motion.