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[quote=turbohobo]In the past when I flipped my Prindle 18 sailing solo, I ask the power boat driver to grab the tip of the mast and bring it around to point into the wind, while that is happening, I clamber onto the hull and get my righting line over the top hull, once the mast is pointing into the wind, ask them to lift the mast, at the same time you lean out as far as you can, boat came up pretty easy, both main and jib were of course, un-cleated. You have to remember the cohesive properties of water, when the sail gets wet you have to break that cohesion, that is why if you have crew, you get them to swim to the mast head, point it into the wind and lift it, you lay out almost vertical using the righting line and if there is enough wind it gets under the sail and breaks that cohesion, crew can then swim around and grab onto righting line to help right cat.

If you are sailing solo and there is no one around when you flip your cat, the righting bag comes into play, there are 2 types of righting bag:-

small bag
[img]http://www.murrays.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/11-5101.jpg[/img]

big bag
[img]http://www.murrays.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/01-3280.jpg[/img]

Both bags (can) attach to your righting line, so some preparation is required as to where bag will attach, flip boat over on its side, (you decide where to do this, grassy lawn or shallow water) take your righting line and throw over upper hull so you can see where to tie a loop in your righting line. If you have a fixed length of line attached to your righting bag, feed the line through the loop, fill the bag with water and pull bag up to required height so that when you lean out bag is over your shoulder. When you have figured out the length required on your righting bag line, tie a stopper knot in righting bag line so that it stops at the loop, then all you have to do is hold onto righting bag line while leaning out.

The 4:1 righting up-haul line makes things a little easier when it is attached to your righting bag, attach righting bag to righting line using a snap shackle through the loop you tied, fill bag with water, hoist bag out of water, cleat line off, duck under line so that as you lean out line is over your shoulder.

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