What boat on Coast tonight?

[TiggerToo]

Did anyone watch Coast? Did anyone recognise the lovely yawl (or was it a ketch)?

 

[jerrytug]

I googled the sail number,no answer. A yawl I reckon. Nice work if you can get it! They should have used an older design but it's tv,at least it wasn't a rib.

 

[sailorman]

A Yawl has the mizzen mast abaft the rudder post

 

[jerrytug]

Those classic bermudan yawls just use the little mizzen for trim don't they? The extra drag and faff from the little back mast would surely cancel out any contribution to forward motion?

 

[sailorman]

Those classic bermudan yawls just use the little mizzen for trim don't they? The extra drag and faff from the little back mast would surely cancel out any contribution to forward motion?

ease weather helm

 

[geoid96]

Did anyone watch Coast? Did anyone recognise the lovely yawl (or was it a ketch)?

She is Rinamara, a 47ft McGruer built in 1968.

 

[jerrytug]

I thought of the weather helm thing,then I thought again. I would guess you could use the mizzen for steering eg to help her head through the wind? I haven't had a go on a yawl,wouldn't mind messing about with her for a day or two though

 

[prv]

Those classic bermudan yawls just use the little mizzen for trim don't they? The extra drag and faff from the little back mast would surely cancel out any contribution to forward motion?

That's perhaps the case going upwind - the mizzen is in the dirty air off the mainsail and doesn't help all that much. Any other point of sail, the mizzen is a driving sail like any other. On a broad reach in particular, in Kindred Spirit, it feels like it's pulling like a horse. Plus in some boats (not ours) you can set a mizzen staysail which is supposed to be a good pulling sail on a reach.

In my early-80s edition of Heavy Weather Sailing, Adlard Coles gives a list of reasons he likes yawls, and regrets that they are "virtually penalised" under the racing rating rules so that he can't have one any more.

Pete

 

[Lakesailor]

I wouldn't mind messing about with her for a day or two though

People used to say that about Joanna Lumley.

 

[sailorman]

People used to say that about Joanna Lumley.

But now Jessica Ennis

 

[Goldie]

you can set a mizzen staysail which is supposed to be a good pulling sail on a reach.

It does - and we fly ours when the wind's between 60 and 150 dgrees off the bow. Worth its weight in gold. See my avatar!

 

[Robby]

Did anyone watch Coast? Did anyone recognise the lovely yawl (or was it a ketch)?

I think it was Gremsa - http://www.flickr.com/photos/29913197@N08/2793324266/in/set-72157606923899452

See Orkney Yawl association - http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/yoleassociation/index.asp?pageid=454

Rob.

 

[TiggerToo]

no, Rob, it was the other one... (in Guernsey)

 

[Bandit]

Twas Rinamara

 

[Robby]

no, Rob, it was the other one... (in Guernsey)

Do'h! Just realised I was watching a recording of "Map Man"

Must try to pay more attention...

 

[OGITD]

Must try to pay more attention...

These are the very words used on every-one of my school reports! .....

 

[Buck Turgidson]

http://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/download-pdf/87

Lovely