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Roy
OCC Harbour Master for the Hout Bay area.
Roy
OCC Harbour Master for the Hout Bay area.
A regular blog viewer has spotted something.
By
the way, take a close look at that pic, specifically the set of the sails vs
the burgee on top of the mast!!
Cheers
Justin
A comment just in from a fellow cruiser and now back in the UK.
Notty
A comment just in from a fellow cruiser and now back in the UK.
Hi Justin,
I had the twistle fitting mad up before we left
CT but it was a while before we tried it out. When we at last met the trades we
first had too much wind, 50-knots for almost a week and at times we were flying
along a over 9-knots on a 37 ft boat with no sails at all up, I was never sure
it the speed was due to going downhill on the huge swells or the wind but most
likely both. Anyway when we did get a lighter wind we got it rigged with two
working jibs. The nice thing is that the fitting is allowed to float free, held
in place by and uphaul and downhaul and the sheet from each pole and it
worked quite well with the main lowered or sheeted in while fully reefed to try
to damp the rolling.
I would have used it more but Dion my son and
fore-deck hand didn't like it at all so we probably only used it for a couple
of hundred miles. The interesting thing was that it sort of looked after itself
even when you wandered off course where you would normally be jibing.
