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[quote=CatFan57][quote=klozhald]Those instructions in the 18-2 manual were copied from the 16/18 manual and do not apply to your Two, really.
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I brought this up early on but it was never changed.[/quote]

Interesting.  Sounds like maybe you worked for the company back when this manual was created and you suggested this instruction be removed?

Anyway, I'm not trying to make a big deal about the manual - just trying to see if there's a reason someone would "walk towards the transom until the bows are positioned [into the wind]," and so far, nobody seems to see one, no matter what size catamaran.

Thanks for the other comments about righting.  I think I had an occasion (maybe it was the one mentioned above) where I capsized and ended up with my bows pointed away from the wind, which meant my mast (lying down in the water) was basically perpendicular to the direction of the wind.  The back end of the sail (leech), although down in the water, was pointed towards the wind.  In that orientation, as I started pulling the mast up, the mainsail obviously started coming with it, and the wind began hitting the mainsail and flowing across it in a backwards direction to the normal flow.  That really effectively just drove the mainsail and mast back down into the water.  Since the leech of the sail was still trailing down in the water, the further the mast/mainsail came out of the water, the more main surface area was exposed to the wind, and the stronger the wind force was driving them back down, sort of pinning them there.  There was no way to get the boat righted in that orientation.

Which is how I got on this topic of how to get the bows reoriented.  If anybody has any suggestions for getting your boat reoriented from that position, I'd be interested to hear them.<em>Edited by CatFan57 on Apr 26, 2023 - 02:27 PM.</em> [/quote]

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