You can get yourself into the "heave to" condition......
"heave to"
Well... no."hove to"
Per Nulla,
Here's my advice to help you with future on the water issues that you have questions about. Get a GoPro camera and mount it where you and the boat can be seen in the footage. The stern end of the boom, with a small extension even further aft, looking forward would work very well......
Cheers,
- Andy
A quick search on this forum didn't reveal much. But over on the Sunfish forum, we recently had a discussion about video cameras. Here's the link.I'm going to search for posts on cameras for ideas but I'd greatly appreciate if someone would post a link if this subject has been covered.
Lots of good information in this discussion, but to get back to your initial inquiry about how to get "unstuck" from being in irons, Per, there is a very quick and simple method: Reach up and push the boom out away from the centerline of the boat. The bow will immediately start to turn away from the wind. Hold the boom as long as you can, than pull the tiller so you're steering in that direction, sheet in, and you are moving again.Andy,
Great idea. I'm going to search for posts on cameras for ideas but I'd greatly appreciate if someone would post a link if this subject has been covered.
Thanks,
PN
One time I went in over my head when it was really disturbed wind and I could not find a way to get going.I still don't know what I did to get out of it but a couple times I can out of it so violently I lost hold of the mainsheet and tiller. How I didn't capsize is a mystery to me.
Per Nulla,
Here's my advice to help you with future on the water issues that you have questions about. Get a GoPro camera and mount it where you and the boat can be seen in the footage. The stern end of the boom, with a small extension even further aft, looking forward would work very well.
That way, when something happens you can upload the footage to YouTube, post a link to the video here and say, "I wasn't able to figure out what I was doing wrong. What do you all think?".
This would be very useful to all of us because without footage documenting the issue, we can only guess as to what you were doing wrong.
In our hang gliding community, almost everyone has a GoPro or similar camera. This includes brand new students and novice pilots. And when these new students and novice pilots have a poor launch or poor landing, they post to our forums with a link to the footage and ask for feedback and advice. And dozens of very experienced pilots respond. This educational process works wonderfully.
Cheers,
- Andy