Subject: Re: : Re: [harryproa] Storm tactics in a HP
From: "Rob Denney harryproa@gmail.com [harryproa]" <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au>
Date: 9/24/2019, 4:35 AM
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
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harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au

 

No idea and no intention of finding out!  With the quality of weather forecasts, to be caught in the path of a hurricane would suggest a lack of attention or a death wish.   Your lake weather is a different kettle of fish.  Assuming 10 minutes or so warning and plenty of sea room, I would lower the sails, toss a drogue or parachute out the back and retire inside or without sea room,  deep reef the sails and tight reach away from danger while huddled in the lee of the cabin.  

When there is no warning, unstayed masts are a blessing.  Stayed rig boats either luff, the head sail flogs and the sheets whip themselves into a huge, lethal knot or you turn and run with it while the crew try to drop/furl the headsail and then winch the main down against the stays.  In 50+ knots this would be difficult if not impossible.   Unstayed,  mainsail only rigs, you release the sheet and the halyard and the fully battened main drops onto the boom, or to the deep reef.  If the deep reef is too much sail, it can be eased so only some of it is working.  

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:54 PM bobg3723@yahoo.com [harryproa] <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:
 

A parachute and heading for open ocean sounds no less compromising to me than confronting a 30' storm surge, all things considered, that's for sure. 


Just curious, Rob, what category hurricane in open ocean in a multihull would you consider no longer tenable even with a parachute? 

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