Well....hearing this from so many of you, I will use ya'll's advice and hove to when reefing. As you can see from my hull number, I'm new to the M17's with a lot to learn. It sounds like you guys are pretty adadpt at heaving to and doing it quickly. So, 'with the boom just over the quarter and the helm hard alee', how much of your jib is backwinded?? Right now I only have one jib and it is a 130 on a CDI furler. Should I furl some of it? Thanks, Joe Seafrog M17 #651 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Davies" <jdavies104@gmail.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:08 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Reefing arrangements
I can't imagine reefing any other way than hove to, but that's probably because I've never done it any other way. Hove to the boat is quiet and on a fairly even keel, essentially "parked". I've found that my 17 balances quite well with the boom just over the quarter and the helm hard alee, so I can get at the leach reefing line without leaning out of the boat.
Rick M-17 #633 Lynne L
On 12/12/09, Tom Jenkins <tjenk@gte.net> wrote:
Doug, It sounds as if you can stand forward in the cockpit and do everything. My hook works fine for the first reef, but I sometimes struggle to get the second cringle over the hook when the boat is bouncing. Maybe heaving to solves that problem. Tom
On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Doug Kelch wrote:
Rick had mentioned that he reefs while hove to.
I do the same and find it very efficient. To do this though the boom is outboard of the cockpit and I but a turning block just aft of the reefing clew in order to lead the reefing line foward along the boom so that I am not leaning outboard of the boat while reefing.
So my reefing clew arrangement is a line from a pad eye on the port side through the reefing clew, to turning block on starboard and then forward to a small horn cleat about 3 feet aft of the mast.
When the boat is hove to the boat is far more stable than trying to head into the wind and everything works smoother so that I am comfortable with just a reefing hook at the gooseneck.
Thanks
Doug Kelch "Seas the Day" M15 #310 G
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