Top tip. Jammed jib furler and need to drop sail.

[Refueler]

Without wishing to be accused of biting back (see posts passim...) that would have been a right old laugh in 35kts+ when I had to do the circles in Lymington's entrance 4 year ago. Go near a flogging headsail & sheets on a 37' boat? No thanks.

Did you not read later post ... that decision of what to do depends on circumstances at the time ...

And just for your benefit - I don't care if its a 25 or 35 or 45ft boat ... sails can hurt / kill / injure even on a dinghy ...

And if you think there will never be a time that you may have to approach a flogging sail - then I suggest you stay on dry land ...

 

[anoccasionalyachtsman]

QUOTE=Refueler
Did you not read later post ... that decision of what to do depends on circumstances at the time ...

Nope, missed that, should have, good point - well recovered.

And just for your benefit - I don't care if its a 25 or 35 or 45ft boat ... sails can hurt / kill / injure even on a dinghy ...

Thanks, I'd never have guessed.

And if you think there will never be a time that you may have to approach a flogging sail - then I suggest you stay on dry land ...

I'm tempted to make a similarly rude reply, but won't.

 

[Refueler]

QUOTE=Refueler
Did you not read later post ... that decision of what to do depends on circumstances at the time ...

Nope, missed that, should have, good point - well recovered.

And just for your benefit - I don't care if its a 25 or 35 or 45ft boat ... sails can hurt / kill / injure even on a dinghy ...

Thanks, I'd never have guessed.

And if you think there will never be a time that you may have to approach a flogging sail - then I suggest you stay on dry land ...

I'm tempted to make a similarly rude reply, but won't.

Fine ... I did not like your post that prompted my reply also.

 

[Venus1]

My secret tip for wrapped spinnakers, and I hope competitors aren't reading.... Sail by the lee and that flow reverses, unwinding the sail.

Yes. And/or gybe the mainsail. It’s magic how the spinnaker unwraps itself - and crew morale rebounds

 

[Poignard]

Years ago in Studland Bay where I was sheltering from a gale I saw a yacht come in and start circling around.

I wondered what he was doing until I noticed the genoa gradually getting smaller.

I didn't count the number of times but it must have been quite a lot.

Eventually it was all furled and a halyard wrapped round it.

 

[Refueler]

To wrap a genny by circling the yacht means that sheets must be let fly and OUT of cars ... or at least enough slack to allow them to be wrapped round the furler as well ......

 

[hwill]

I used the same technique years ago when inattention allowed the cruising chute to take not one but several turns around the forestay when the wind died away. Once it started, it seemed to be caught in a self-perpetuating vortex - flip, flip, flip, until it had about half a dozen turns making a lovely wineglass. Engine on, motor in circles as each one popped out. Not sure what the flag signals are for that manoeuvre.

 

[hwill]

I used the same technique years ago when inattention allowed the cruising chute to take not one but several turns around the forestay when the wind died away. Once it started, it seemed to be caught in a self-perpetuating vortex - flip, flip, flip, until it had about half a dozen turns making a lovely wineglass. Engine on, motor in circles as each one popped out. Not sure what the flag signals are for that manoeuvre.

My secret tip for wrapped spinnakers, and I hope competitors aren't reading.... Sail by the lee and that flow reverses, unwinding the sail.

The attached pdf is brilliant, contains som excellent advice

 

[fredrussell]

To wrap a genny by circling the yacht means that sheets must be let fly and OUT of cars ... or at least enough slack to allow them to be wrapped round the furler as well ......

I took my sheets off before doing the pirouettes. Handy to only have a couple of bowlines to deal with. A tightened cow hitch would have been tricky. Head to wind, obvs, to get the sheets off - bit scary though going near that sail.

 

[Refueler]

I took my sheets off before doing the pirouettes. Handy to only have a couple of bowlines to deal with. A tightened cow hitch would have been tricky. Head to wind, obvs, to get the sheets off - bit scary though going near that sail.

This is why I mentioned it .... especially after another poo-poo'd my suggestion - which I have done and seen done - of making fast sheets to fwd - then spiraling spinny halyard round it ... to get it at least caught.