I've got a small 26 foot long keeled boat and always heave to for lunch and to practice the maneuver. I've raised and lowered the mainsail whilst hove to also. Great video. Thanks.
Super useful manouver. I used it in the hardest beat I ever did (18 hours), excellent to take a break, boil up a soup. I had a reefed working jib and reefed main.
Though we never been far or long enough at sea to have to heave to to wait for calmer weather we liked to heave to sometimes to reef the mainsail or a bathroom break or simply to boil water for coffee or lunch. It really slows everything down
The back winded jib sheet is rubbing on the side shroud, not a good thing. The sheet should be led DOWN closer to the deck to a snatch block to prevent chaffing while Heaveing to.
@@chrispitchford6045 yes, you are right. If we heave to for longer period, then this sail configuration would not be optimal. One always have to avoid Chaffing. Good observation.
The working jib sheet seems to be putting a lot of pressure on the cap shroud. Is that really ok? Should the lazy jib sheet be run inside the shrouds and made fast to take the pressure when the genoa backwinds? Thanks.
@ good observation. In a blow, where we would need to heave to for longer, we would not heave to with the headsail, but have our staysail on the inner stay . The sheets of our stay sail are routed inside the shrouds. We heave too here to show our crew the tactic, for a short period you can heave to with the bigger sail., but watch out for chafe. Thanks for the comment
@@Saga47swanSailing Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I only have a 135% genoa. I've tried heaving to a few times with it, but it was quite difficult. I didn't have it reefed down as much as you did here. I will definitely try that out next season. Larry and Lin Pardey were advocates of using the mainsail only. I haven't tried that out yet. Any thoughts on that? Appreciate your help for us new salts.
@@christopherfranks478 it depends on your boat, only way to find out is to try it. It is likely to work with a reefed main as the yacht ( without headsail) will not have power/speed enough to tack I.e she will lie heave to. Let us know how it goes
@@christopherfranks478 How do you heave-to with only a mainsail? I mean, do the Pardeys say you can do it just the same but without the backed jib? Seems like you might tack unexpectedly without the headsail working as a stop. And then spin in a circle. Curious to understand.
I use this procedure all the time, especially when solo, to reef the mainsail. I have found on my boat with a 135% genoa it must be reduced substantially for a hove to to be really effective. When i have my 110% jib up i rarely need to reduce its size to get an effective and stable hove to situation. My yacht is 33ft in length.
@@chrispitchford6045 it is not really a demonstration, but our novice crew having a “go” at heaving to. For a training / demonstration YT what would you like to see / include? Let us know what is missing. Looking forward to your recommendations Skipper Chris
I've got a small 26 foot long keeled boat and always heave to for lunch and to practice the maneuver. I've raised and lowered the mainsail whilst hove to also. Great video. Thanks.
@@HP-qj4gz thanks , very pleased you liked the video. Which other topic or manoeuvre would you like to see on our YT ?
Super useful manouver. I used it in the hardest beat I ever did (18 hours), excellent to take a break, boil up a soup. I had a reefed working jib and reefed main.
@@awuma what boat are you sailing and where ?
Though we never been far or long enough at sea to have to heave to to wait for calmer weather we liked to heave to sometimes to reef the mainsail or a bathroom break or simply to boil water for coffee or lunch. It really slows everything down
Thanks for taking time comment. Heave to is awesome when you need a break or have to wait for the tide at a lock .
The back winded jib sheet is rubbing on the side shroud, not a good thing. The sheet should be led DOWN closer
to the deck to a snatch block to prevent chaffing while Heaveing to.
@@chrispitchford6045 yes, you are right. If we heave to for longer period, then this sail configuration would not be optimal. One always have to avoid Chaffing. Good observation.
The working jib sheet seems to be putting a lot of pressure on the cap shroud. Is that really ok? Should the lazy jib sheet be run inside the shrouds and made fast to take the pressure when the genoa backwinds? Thanks.
@ good observation. In a blow, where we would need to heave to for longer, we would not heave to with the headsail, but have our staysail on the inner stay . The sheets of our stay sail are routed inside the shrouds.
We heave too here to show our crew the tactic, for a short period you can heave to with the bigger sail., but watch out for chafe. Thanks for the comment
@@Saga47swanSailing Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I only have a 135% genoa. I've tried heaving to a few times with it, but it was quite difficult. I didn't have it reefed down as much as you did here. I will definitely try that out next season. Larry and Lin Pardey were advocates of using the mainsail only. I haven't tried that out yet. Any thoughts on that? Appreciate your help for us new salts.
@@christopherfranks478 it depends on your boat, only way to find out is to try it. It is likely to work with a reefed main as the yacht ( without headsail) will not have power/speed enough to tack I.e she will lie heave to. Let us know how it goes
@@christopherfranks478 How do you heave-to with only a mainsail? I mean, do the Pardeys say you can do it just the same but without the backed jib? Seems like you might tack unexpectedly without the headsail working as a stop. And then spin in a circle. Curious to understand.
I use this procedure all the time, especially when solo, to reef the mainsail. I have found on my boat with a 135% genoa it must be reduced substantially for a hove to to be really effective. When i have my 110% jib up i rarely need to reduce its size to get an effective and stable hove to situation. My yacht is 33ft in length.
A terrible demonstration.
@@chrispitchford6045 it is not really a demonstration, but our novice crew having a “go” at heaving to. For a training / demonstration YT what would you like to see / include? Let us know what is missing.
Looking forward to your recommendations
Skipper Chris
It was pretty clear to me.