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One time sailing with my dad we tried to launch from a sand spit after the wind came up. Each time we tried we'd get blown back on. We then tried doing it with
by Gibbon1 4y ago
One time sailing with my dad we tried to launch from a sand spit after the wind came up. Each time we tried we'd get blown back on. We then tried doing it with the sails down and paddling like mad and we made it. We found we could point about 45 degrees into the wind with the sails still down. And so we just tacked across the bay to the dock like that.
- mcv 4y agoI once tried tacking against the wind through a gap between two lakes that acted like a funnel. The funnel effect created such strong waves that I couldn't get my boat to turn into the wind. Eventually I gave up and tried it on the motor, but it was too weak to power against the waves and the wind. So what I ended up doing was sailing, tacking, but using the motor to force the boat through the wind for the tack. That worked, but it was one of the weirder hacks I've done in sailing. (My English sailing terminology might be incorrect; I'm Dutch, and sailing terminology is the only area of language that I only know in Dutch.)