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[quote=yurdle][quote=erice]i've thought of pulling my jib right in to stall it as a way of de-powering

but that's really only going to work if you can keep the wind head on and the jib flogging

otherwise, like trying to carry a large sheet of plywood across a windy yard, a tight jib on a cat in strong winds will try and turn the boat around and then over....  [/quote]

The apparent wind will always be in your face in this situation, and while it certainly pushes on the jib, and therefore the bows, you DO have control of the tiller.

Basically, the amount of heel I had wasn't too much, it was just too much FOR ME to consistently hold the windward bow barely over the water.  It was either skimming, and getting beat to hell, or we'd go up to almost 45 degrees fairly quickly, which is just too high to think that the tramp won't catch wind and push you over, so I'd have to round up and lose speed, which is also all bad.

My crew, who is a better sailor than me, took the helm for a while due to a trap line/harness issue, and he had less trouble keeping it where it needed to be, but we'd also incurred all the damage at that point and were just trying to get home however we could.

This was at a point most people would consider it survival sailing due to the chop, but we WERE out there for fun (and i wanted practice)..  So again just wondering which method any of you would use in similar conditions.[/quote]

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