Capsize recovery
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Topic: Capsize recovery
Posted By: mattmd
Subject: Capsize recovery
Date Posted: 10 Sep 09 at 6:52pm
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Hiya this weekend went sailing, was on the trapeize and had the very problematic kite up. wen we had a knot it all went pair shaped. anyway we went over and i didnt know what to do with the kite in the water. i packed it into the chute but took a while. Can anyone tell me the proper technique for recovering with kite up. Matt ------------- Matt MD Contender GBR-620 |
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 10 Sep 09 at 7:05pm
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IME you won't get away with recovering the boat with the kite up unless its pretty light.
I find its usually best to take it down in the water, using the halyard in the normal way. If the boat is inverted you may well find that there's an airgap and you can just duck into it to take down the kite. I haven't tried this with a Feva. Alternatively get the boat on its side and have one person on the board, the other recovering the kite. By the time you've done all this the rig will probably be to windward, so the trick of having the person at the cockpit side not try to get in, but instead just wrap their arms round the shroud should help a first time recovery if its seriously windy. |
Posted By: mattmd
Date Posted: 10 Sep 09 at 7:08pm
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o thanks we were in a horrid magno with a horrible spinnaker. It seemed impossible to pull down upright let alone on its side. thanks for that. we are hoping to get a 29er, the spinnaker drops look amasing on it. Matt
------------- Matt MD Contender GBR-620 |
Posted By: FireballNeil
Date Posted: 10 Sep 09 at 9:00pm
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The 29er system does work pretty well, a LOT better than a
feva ------------- Neil 
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Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 10 Sep 09 at 10:38pm
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Its very important to have a kite system that works smoothly, especially in windy weather or racing so spend some time sorting out the engineering by making sure it threaded properly and the ropes and blocks aren't worn. I would say 9 out of 10 Laser4000s that have turned up at our club are not correctly rigged and the new owners complain about the difficulty of getting the kite up and down. This is one of the factors that put people off the boat. Its going to be even harder when the kite is wet and you'll find the kite is wet when you've capsised! The technique for sorting the kite is to uncleat everything (it has wing-wangs) and start it going into the chute. You don't have to stow it properly since with the haliard off it will not catch any wind. With a 4000 its good to get the kicker off too. By the way there is no air pocket under a 4000 and the thing is so keen to invert completely that the safest thing is to keep clear until you've got some weight on the board.
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Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 11 Sep 09 at 6:05pm
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In the lark our routine is normally crew on board grab jib sheet and start righting. Helm (in water not hanging on to boat) uncleat kite, release kicker and pull on downhaul. helm scopped into boat release transon flaps and get boat stable crew drop rest of kite broad reach, when 2/3 water gone rehoist... If the boat inverts we get it to 90 degrees then go from top. Garry ------------- Garry Lark 2252, Contender 298 www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk |