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Heaving to is a great tactic.
In Response To: We sailed exactly 80nm out of Port Clyde in 10 hours. Then the GPS flashed 12.1 kts, down a wave, the fun was over. 
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() Learned it years ago racing Solings in Grand Bahama. Time for lunch? Just heave to. Amazing how the boat just parks itself with no attention and little motion.
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- We sailed exactly 80nm out of Port Clyde in 10 hours. Then the GPS flashed 12.1 kts, down a wave, the fun was over.
- Quite a start to your vacation
- Great read Tom.......! Thanks.
- Great read. Thanks. Hope there will be more from the trip
- Whew! As regards seasickness, it is not that you think you will die, it is the fear you won't....been there.
- MJ recovered enough to row her mother out to Christmas the next day!
- I got queasy a few weeks ago
- Sounds like you had an adventure.
- Heaving to is a great tactic.
- Get Christmas a Dutchman boom brake.
- Thanks Tom
- Preventer?
- In this case, preventer is a misnomer.
- I'm surprised you don't have one of these
- Tom has roller furling on the boom
- Tom has roller furling on the boom
- I'm surprised you don't have one of these
- In this case, preventer is a misnomer.
- CCA describes a preventer system that works very well for me
- Really good tale Tom!