Straw Poll -- mast in the water

[AndrewB]

Never under but twice touched the crosstrees. Once when broached by a breaking wave in the Atlantic in an F6, once when hit by a line-squall off Cowes (!) while jockying at the start of a race.

I've put this question about capsise to many long-distance cruisers, and a surprising number say they have at some time, though only ever met two who actually thought they rolled (and neither of them was certain). It has made me think very hard about stowage aboard, to check things are secure. A load of heavy stuff being flung around is the last thing one wants in such situations.

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[rwoofer]

Put the mast in through a windward broach/chinese gybe on my 707. SWMBO was literally floated out of the cockpit into the briny. I had to hold onto a stanchion and reach for her arm so that she got scooped up when we righted.

That taught me not to lean the boat to windward (normally the fastest way of sailing downwind) in a strong breeze!!



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[kds]

Did it on a 2 1/2 ton trailer sailor.
But that was not the worst of it. Beautiful hot, almost windless day in Rhodesia. Wife in cockpit with baby, I was busy handling Genoa and tiller, never saw the mini hurricane (we called them whirlies) from behind until it hit.
Mast into water.
But that was not the worst of it. Wife was breast-feeding at the time. Niether she nor baby went overboard, 'though some shape changing took place. I can't understand why she won't come sailing with me any more !
Ken

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[Talbot]

Only the ones indelibly captured in my head - still enough to make me wake up a tad sweaty after 30 + years.

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[floatything]

oooOOOOooooh - pardon me for breathing. I merely thought it was an amusing tale /forums/images/icons/frown.gif

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[claymore]

I remember

When I was skipper of a whaler - bound out frae Leith to Torshavn in the Faeroe Islands and it was blowing something like a choppy force 17 at the time...
I turned round to my starboard right and saw the crew being sick over the side
I said "Come on chaps" - called them chaps and BY God they loved me for it - "come on Chaps -lets all heave to - sorry chaps, bad turn of phrase - lets all pull together and we'll make it to Torshavn if its the last thing we do"
My God the chaps responded splendidly and burst into spontaneous song as one voice and we lived to tell this marvellous and stirring tale. The wind increased to a point where it was blowing 27 rectums across the baggywrinkle but our careful planning and preparation saw us stay bolt upright throughout the whole experience
So,.....no I haven't.
Masts in the water - whit kind o' macho crap es this yer peddlin noo ye daft lummox

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[claymore]

No yours then?

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[jhr]

Re: I remember

My word, what a stirring tale, though the thought of you and the crew, all pulling together, produces a disturbing visual image that I'd rather have done without......

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[charles_reed]

Once

and I don't want to repeat the experience becos' it's the only time I've put out a Mayday.

Coming into the Dovey estuary, about an hour after HW Springs when the rudder-blade broke and we broached on the 3rd standing wave and our masthead touched the 5th. It was only blowing about F6.

Lost quarter lifering and dan and dragged crew back on board by his harness.

Boat, with considerable commonsense, headed straight back out to sea, without hitting the Bar buoy or the outer.

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[charles_reed]

Dahn\' sarf

mind should be the Royal County of Berkshire

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[Ohdrat]

Does 360° count in a kayak.. no mast admittedly??? oh and in sub zero temps.. hands thankfully inside a pair of pink marigolds frozen to paddle...

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[mirabriani]

Did this on my first sail, in a Mirror dinghy.
I thought "Well, it can't be hard" so I took it to a small lake
Somehow it inverted and I was stuck in the middle, every body
had gone home, so I just had to struggle until it came up.
The mud on top told me what had ocurred.
Surprisingly it did not put me off sailing.

On this theme, a friend has a (female) partner who does not
like a boat to lean, she always calls out "She's going"!
So when ever we are sailing in a blow this is the shout
especially after a bevy or three.

Regards and a Merry Christmas
Briani

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[burgundyben]

three times, spring 25 at cowes week in the late eighties both rudders out the water too, J120 at cowes 1999(should not go reaching with a little baby screeching kite in 30 knots praps....blame too much red bull), and once in a 70 knot squall in a westerly fulmar which was a full knockdown and took instruments on the mast.

but other than that never....

then be came a moboer

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[Peppermint]

Re: Depends on your trailer.

It was the old "Maiden" on a trip to the Fastnet and various Irish pubs.

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