Dennis, heaving to is by nature a balanced situation for your cat. So yes, sometimes you have to play a little with the main and/or the rudders (and fix them) to arrive to that balance.
Perhaps I'm very lucky to have made a cat which is very balanced by itself.
By the way the fully battening of a catsail is in my opinion not an issue in heaving-to.
Last edited by northsea junkie; 09/04/14 12:03 PM.
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.
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