Re: Sailslugs and SF Bay-Ready riggingRe: Here Goes!

Ted Duke (tedduke@usa.net)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:30:33 -0500


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Bill,

I resisted for awhile, but I have to ask. What is a "chinese gybe"?
Enquiring minds want to know? No one else had nerve to ask?

Ted Duke
WWPs19 #626
Mountains of Virginia

Bill Combs wrote:

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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> > ... discussions about folks breaking their tillers when
> > sailing in very high winds in SF Bay ...
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> A broken __tiller__?!? That's one I'd surely like to see. I've been
> through some of the worst conditions I can imagine a P19 being in --
> high winds, large & ugly waves, falling in holes, knockdowns, crossing
> seas, sideways motion, power round-ups, even a Chinese gybe -- and
> have not even seen the tiller strained, although the rudder strained
> at its gudgeons a time or two. All of which is no tribute to such
> little seamanship as I posses, of course.
>
> Regardless, my ususally-sufficient imagination fails me. How do we
> think this type of failure could/did happen?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Combs
> WWP 19 #439 (Aug 1987)
> "Ursa Minor"
> Fort Walton Beach FL
> still in the Keys
> ttursine@gnt.net