Hi Mike,
When you get your Harry, set up a steering station on the beam, sail over the mooring, stop and reverse back to it and just pick your buoy out of the water, the stern becomes the bow and you are set.
Hope you protected your bows from the collision ;<)
--- In harryproa@yahoogrou
>
>
> Today I went into the water while mooring the 27' catamaran. I was
> standing in the dinghy, which was on the mooring, pulling the cat over
> to the bridle when a big gust took the boat. I hung onto the cat,
> thinking that my friend at the helm would not be able to catch the
> mooring on his own (tough to moor such a light boat with all that
> windage). I got my hands across the bow to hold onto the edge of the
> deck, arms flat on the deck, legs in the water.
>
> The reason I mention this is because the drag caused by my legs
> apparently made it almost impossible to bear off the wind. As a
> result, instead of circling back to the mooring, my friend charged
> straight ahead and rammed me into a tree that happened to be floating in
> the mooring field. Then he decided to fix his mistake by backing out,
> and pulling me through the tree again. Thankfully he stopped after
> that, helped me get a leg up on deck, and we moored the boat properly.
>
> I had been wondering why he rammed the tree instead of steering away
> from it, but he called right after I read your post and explained that
> the boat simply wouldn't turn to leeward. (the second tree ramming,
> though, I still place on his shoulders...
>
> This would have been more fun to try in July instead of October -- 44
> degrees today and windy.
>
> - Mike
>
>
> cateran1949 wrote:
> >
> >
> > The worst bit of trouble I had with steering a little tri I had was
> > when the rock pick happened to untie itself from the net. I spent
> > about half an hour trying to get around a small headland and was
> > assuming current problems so started the outboard which promptly
> > wrapped itself around the anchor rope so i discovered the problem. I
> > am assuming all sorts of possible problems like this were eliminated
> > but just in case.....
> >
> >
>
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