Practise heaving-to, whatever the weather
You should run through and be familiar with your boat’s characteristics for heaving-to in different conditions. Just because you know how to do this in principle your boat will behave differently to others and differently in varied sea states and wind speeds, and will depend on what reefs you may have in at the time.
Often the main sheet is not long enough to allow the main to be fully free so a simple lengthening strop is required if you have a clip fastening for your mainsheet block to the track. An alternative is to undo the figure of eight and unreeve the sheet from the block/jammer part of the set up and attach an extra
