Manoeuvring
Oct 08, 2020
5 minutes
HEAVING TO
Our first manoeuvring test for the day was to set each boat up hove-to, in order to get some sense of how each might perform. The results were relatively surprising in their similarities. All boats behaved similarly in terms of their leeward drift, here defined as SoG. There was a difference in how the boats lay relative to the wind, and thus how comfortable they may feel in a seaway, but we were expecting to see larger disparities here than we saw in general.
CARRYING WAY
With sails down we started with some open water tests, firstly motoring in a 360º circle with engine a touch over tick over to see how quickly she would spin. Then motoring at 4 knots, we dropped into neutral and let go of the helm. We
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