ext_155506 ([identity profile] shayde.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] gilana 2010-06-28 11:34 pm (UTC)

Hooray! Congrats! Gybes can be scary - I've found on smaller boats the best way to manage them is to sheet in until I'm close to accidentally gybing, grab the boom and give it a shove over, sheeting out after the main takes up the slack. The SLAM over of a fully let out main is nasty...

I'm not sure if this is 'by the book' - but it's what I learned on Da Big Boats, where a gybe like that can dismast the boat (by snapping the standing rigging).

Jibsheets are wonderful - wait til you fly your first spinnaker :)

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