The wreck is tied up with a string to the pole on the street.

Was it still blowing that much?????????

But seriously, what can you do when you are catched in gusts of 40 kts?

My experience would say: go as closed hauled as possible and free your downhaul! It would stop the hard swinging of the mast (in a gust the winddirection changes always).

Heaving to seems impossible to me.
Let it capseize on purpose with the risk of total upside down turtle?????
(But assuming that the water is deep enough and that you know how to upright from a complete turtle, it seems also a solution!)

Does anyone have experience with this type of horror?????????

Last edited by northsea junkie; 09/15/13 04:29 AM.
ronald
RAIDER-15 (homebuilt)

hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?..
"huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.