[Public-List] Dolor sailor on Alberg 30 made it to Hawaii, broken rudder

Winslow Ayer 135sleddinghill at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 16:00:40 PDT 2021


Wow. I’m sure you feel lucky indeed. Glad you made it.

Winslow 

> On Sep 23, 2021, at 6:15 PM, Stephen Gwyn <stephen.gwyn at gmail.com> wrote:
> And even then... Coming back from Haida Gwaii on this ketch it
> was blowing 25-30 and we were down to staysail and mizzen. The
> boat was balanced, but not still not stable. Despite full keel,
> gaff rig and being a ketch, the wheel needed constant attention
> to keep her with 10 degrees of her course. At one point in
> the night, I was steering and she kept wanting to luff up by 20
> degrees. Luckily as it turns out. Just after I got her back on course,
> a huge 6-foot diameter by 60 foot long log loomed out of the dark.
> Had I been where I supposed to be we would have hit it. That log
> would have sunk an A30, and done a lot of damage even to that boat.
> 
> SG
> 
> 
> On 2021-09-23 2:35 p.m., Winslow Ayer wrote:
>> The beauty being with a mizzenmast you can drop the main, leave the headsail and have nice steerability and headway.
>> 
>> Winslow


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