>!The crew tries to shake off hangovers and hurt feelings after a divisive night out. The deckies spring into action when a surge of wind pushes Parsifal toward the dock. Dani contemplates her future and has a panic attack while under sail. Meanwhile, Colin receives heartbreaking news from home. Alli feels the pressure to address Sydney’s dirty laundry in more ways than one. The crew climbs a dizzying amount of stairs to pull off a scenic cocktail hour at the top of an ancient Croatian tower. But when the guests get overheated, not even an urgent request from Gary can pull Jean-Luc away from his dinner.!<
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Spoilers
- Natasha De Bourg Wows the Guests With a "Frickin' Sexy Piece of Meat"
- Jean-Luc Cerza Lanaux Calls Gary King a "Short Little Frodo"
- The Yachties Prepare for a Day Out in a Tower
- Gary King Has Had It With Jean-Luc Cerza Lanaux
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- don't post spoilers outside of discussion threads
- attack the action not the person
- no armchair diagnosing, body shaming or speculating on people's sexuality
- be civil and remember there is a person on the other side of the screen
Disclaimer-my total sailing experience was learning in a Sunfish on a small Vermont lake many decades ago.
I'm writing a historical novel set in the 17th century which includes one naval battle, the Four Days' Battle of 1666. One Dutch squadron was northeast of the action and the wind was blowing from the southwest. I know the Dutch squadron had to tack to get to get to the battle. My question is if a square rigged ship failed at a tack what would they do to recover?
Title pretty much says it all. While sailing against the wind I always tack, but my friend said sculling (paddling) was quicker. I've done no testing to confirm one or the other. Just getting others thoughts.
If You don't know what tacking is, it's just zig-zagging against the wind.
Edit: "Row" to "Paddle" and changed both to Sculling, I love learning new words.
I'm looking for a fiction book I read around 2009. Near the start of the book the group of teens were learning to sail in boats and there was physical training, they were carrying wooden logs around at one point if I'm not mistaken. I think the group was considered the 'weaker' one compared to the other groups and the ship might have been called heron? though I'm not sure about this point.
I vaguely remember one of the teens was right-handed but learned this thing where he should throw a punch with his non-dominant hand to surprise his enemy and he did this to a guy from another group taking him down. The ship tacking was something he did to win a race against the other group I think, something about his ship having lesser people and thus not as fast?
Another thing was that he was in a cove or some inlet where someone from his group got sick and they had to find willow bark (not sure about this) to treat him and they mentioned how all good medicine tasted bitter, I think he got sick because he was injured? It was also in this cove I believe that he cut out the bottom of their boat and installed a keel? something about a board that could be pushed down into the water.
Does anyone have any idea on what this book is?
Let's say I want to sail 500m upwind and my target is 180° behind me upwind, how many tacks should I need to do?, Is there some general rule of thumb for this, or just eyeball.it.
Water is coming in when heeled over on starboard tacks. We have ran aground a few times but with the keel down and the bottom is mostly mud where we sail her. We are going to be testing for the leak this weekend in her slip before taking her home to repair it for next season so we want to know where to look. ATM we expect the problem to be loosened keel bolts from the groundings. Any other places that could be damaged we should inspect?
I was sailing yesterday and my route basically takes me upwind one way and downwind the other. When going downwind, I typically just let the mainsail out and head dead downwind. I was wondering if this is the right thing to do, or if I should be tacking on a broad reach instead.
What’s the best way to sail downwind? And should I bother with wing on wing?
Hey guys! I'm pretty new to sailing, I haven't taken any courses and have just taken my little boat out and figured it out myself. I have a Catalina Capri 16 and was trying to tack with just the mainsail, blowing about 8 or 9 knots, from a close haul with the wind on my port side and no matter which direction I turned the rudder we just kept on going straight at a pretty low speed of about three knots. The sails were full and eventually I managed to turn us enough to tack after about 20 minutes but I just couldn't get us turning. I'm pretty sure it must have been some stupid mistake but I'd appreciate any advice to avoid that in the future.
People like to claim that paddling against the wind is "proven" to be faster.
This post here seems to be where most people get this information.
Here's the thing - this guy's geometric analysis is spot on, but his numbers have some issues, and large liberties are taken during common secondhand interpretation.
The issue is that his math is great, ( √2 / ([2x paddling speed] / [Sailing Speed])) but the numbers he plugs in are wrong.
A Long Ship has a speed on the wiki at 50% wind is listed as 27 kph, not 25 - which means by his math, "perfect" tacking at 50% windspeed is 1.7 times faster than paddling in a long ship, not 1.4.
His conclusion on the Karve is accurate for 50% windspeed - Idealized tacking is ~1.22 times faster than paddling.
Interestingly, the raft is basically a complete wash under these conditions - you stand to gain almost nothing trying to tack in a raft.
His math does not take storm winds into account though -
The longship harnessing a storm wind is over TWICE as fast (~2.15 times) along it's intended vector tacking as it would be paddling. The Karve is only about 1.5 times faster.
Those are small numerical differences, but they have a pretty big effect on cost analysis.
Another factor he underplays quite a bit is that you do not stop dead when you tack. You make a 90 degree turn, but your momentum along the forward path should be non-trivial unless you completely flub the shit out of the maneuver - ultimately meaning that the delta between idealized numbers and actual results is going to be fairly small, assuming you're not a dumbass and turning across the wind every 40 seconds or something.
Those two things combined, I would argue, mean his ultimate conclusions are flawed, and more than that the reddit hivemind has completely failed to understand that what virtue there is to be had in this analysis COULD ONLY EVER APPLY to literally sailing straight into the wind, which is rarely an entire journey because you're going to be changing direction anyway due to navigating around land, reefs, etc.
TL;DR -
Tacking in a raft is stupid.
Tacking in a Karve is a good move unless the wind is directly in your face, your journey is very short, or (debatably) if you're in a storm.
Tacking in a Long Ship is always the smart play.
We discovered this style of tacking on my Hobie 14 with a non-working jibsail. It goes in irons (stalls) any time we would face the wind, so we just started doing this alternate method to maintain speed through the turns.
Diagram 2 - The whole tacking path ends up looking like this
My question is, what is this style of tacking and/or this 270 degree turn actually called? (The things marked ??? in the diagrams) I'm assuming it has a recognized term since sailing is so old and has a term for everything. It's NOT chicken jibing, which is like this and is to prevent the boom from slamming over when it changes sides. It's basically the opposite of the move I'm asking. (the wind direction is facing the opposite way, chicken jibing is a downwind maneuver)
I figured some experienced sailor in /r/sailing would know what our weird tacking method is called! I can't seem to find it by searching google.
**Edit: From this thread we've found the maneuver of going upwind is called "beating", regardless of how you turn the boat at each pivot. From the comments it seems my style of turns could be called a "cow turn" (from Norway), a "Q-jibe" (from Germany), or a "chicken tack" (America/Europe?), or "wearing ship" on square-rigged sails. ** Since I'm from America and people seem familiar with chicken jibes, I'll probably call it a chicken tack. Seems appropriate since I'm essentially chickening out of the tack!
Use this for todays game thread
Var med om något otäckt i dagarna. Lång historia kort så bestämde jag mig för att kontakta vården och blev hänvisad till akutavdelningen. All personal jag kom i kontakt med var otroligt proffsiga och gjorde det där lilla extra för att vara trevliga och lugna mig. Flera prover togs och jag fick till slut lugnande besked vilket känns jättebra.
Nu är jag hemma igen och är så tacksam att jag fick hjälp och att mina problem togs på allvar. Kändes tryggt. Jag är också amerikan och tänkte hur situationen skulle sett ut där. Först hade jag behövt se över min försäkring för att se om den fungerar på det lokala sjukhuset. Sen hade det tillkommit en fet självrisk. Och hade det visat sig att jag behövt vidare behandling skulle jag kunna hamna i skuld.
Det är mycket så går åt fel håll i detta landet men jag är samtidigt otroligt tacksam över att bo här. Vi får ta vara på det vi har.
Gott nytt år på er!
I've got a 30 foot sailboat with a relatively small cockpit. I've found that if I want to bring a friend out sailing who is just along for the ride, I keep having to ask them to move out of the way so I can trim the sails. Any tips for sailing comfortably with passengers?
Warning, my knowledge of sailing is limited to learning on a Sunfish on a Vermont lake, decades ago.
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This is a detail from the painting View of Vlissingen in 1669, by Petrus Segaers. Is there a contemporary boat that it is possible to compare to guesstimate the time it would take to tack 3 miles, traveling due north with winds NNW 8 knots and seas N 1 feet at 5 seconds?
Any reasonable estimate would do.
Traveling between Vlissingen and Breskens. One chart I found suggests it is at least 10 meters in depth most of the way between the two locations.
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The crew tries to shake off hangovers and hurt feelings after a divisive night out. The deckies spring into action when a surge of wind pushes Parsifal toward the dock. Dani contemplates her future and has a panic attack while under sail. Meanwhile, Colin receives heartbreaking news from home. Alli feels the pressure to address Sydney’s dirty laundry in more ways than one. The crew climbs a dizzying amount of stairs to pull off a scenic cocktail hour at the top of an ancient Croatian tower. But when the guests get overheated, not even an urgent request from Gary can pull Jean-Luc away from his dinner.
The crew tries to shake off hangovers and hurt feelings after a divisive night out. The deckies spring into action when a surge of wind pushes Parsifal toward the dock. Dani contemplates her future and has a panic attack while under sail. Meanwhile, Colin receives heartbreaking news from home. Alli feels the pressure to address Sydney’s dirty laundry in more ways than one. The crew climbs a dizzying amount of stairs to pull off a scenic cocktail hour at the top of an ancient Croatian tower. But when the guests get overheated, not even an urgent request from Gary can pull Jean-Luc away from his dinner.
The crew tries to shake off hangovers and hurt feelings after a divisive night out. The deckies spring into action when a surge of wind pushes Parsifal toward the dock. Dani contemplates her future and has a panic attack while under sail. Meanwhile, Colin receives heartbreaking news from home. Alli feels the pressure to address Sydney’s dirty laundry in more ways than one. The crew climbs a dizzying amount of stairs to pull off a scenic cocktail hour at the top of an ancient Croatian tower. But when the guests get overheated, not even an urgent request from Gary can pull Jean-Luc away from his dinner.
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