13 Jul
2009
13 Jul
'09
9:58 a.m.
sounds like you experienced a 'death roll broach' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_roll dave scobie M17 #375 - SWEET PEA --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Chris Smith <chris.r.smith@gmail.com> wrote: I had a little knockdown event this past weekend with some first time sailors and I fear I scared them away from sailing for a while... :( The odd thing about it was that we were traveling down wind with the main at 60deg to starboard and we tipped over to port! I'm thinking it was something to do with weight distribution (it didn't help that I was putting on my shirt at that moment and couldn't see what happened...).