Tom DeMott
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I am attempting to learn how to heave to in a sunfish. Most of the explanations I've come across involve a heaving to with a jib. How do I heave to without a jib, for example, in a sunfish.
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What is the reason you want to be able to heave to? In addition to the above comments, if you want to slow down or stop, you can generally just sheet out.I am attempting to learn how to heave to in a sunfish. Most of the explanations I've come across involve a heaving to with a jib. How do I heave to without a jib, for example, in a sunfish.
Always heave—to the downwind direction.Tequila was always more likely to cause me to heave than vodka.
"We hove our ship to, with the wind at sou'west, boys,
We hove our ship to for to take soundings clear.
In fifty-five fathoms with a fine sandy bottom,
We filled our maintops'l, up Channel did steer."
"We'll rant an' we'll roar, like true British sailors,
We'll rant an' we'll rave across the salt seas,
'Till we strike soundings in the Channel of Old England,
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-four leagues."
Its story is that of ships in fog (and therefore unable to determine their latitude by sighting) trying to find the entrance to the English Channel, between the dangers of Ushant to the south and the Isles of Scilly to the north. The sandy bottom is a good sign - and there is always the added reassurance of the width of the entrance, thirty-five leagues. A discussion in Arthur Ransome's novel Peter Duck notes that the succession of headlands on the English shore suggests a ship tacking up-channel, identifying a new landmark on each tack.