{"id":1086,"date":"2014-10-14T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.171.78.101\/wordpress\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2014-10-14T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T18:28:21","slug":"a-strange-wind-blowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/general\/a-strange-wind-blowing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Wind Blowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a walk on the docks yesterday afternoon and experienced something I haven\u2019t felt in about a year. A warm wind coming out of the North. It reminded me that summer is over, and some of the \u201cclose quarters\u201d docking and motoring techniques I have relied on all summer might now get me into trouble. Actually, it’s not the techniques themselves, more the fact that techniques need to be adjusted for conditions. This was reinforced this morning, when we again had wind from the North. This time, I watched an experienced skipper back out of a slip and nearly get driven by the wind into a boat on the far side of the fairway. All summer he\u00a0had been backing into a wind.\u00a0 This time,\u00a0he was\u00a0backing with the wind and failed to adjust his LOT<\/strong>. Made me think \u2026 maybe it\u2019s time for a quick refresher on LOT<\/strong>.\u00a0 Always start by checking conditions \u2026 wind \u2026 boat location \u2026 obstacles \u2026 dock lines … etc.<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong> \u2026 draw an imaginary line down the middle of the fairway and try to place the boat on the windward side of that line. In the case of today, the skipper would have needed to make the turn.<\/p>\n

Orientation<\/strong> \u2026 generally, it\u2019s a good idea to get the bow pointed slightly to windward. That way, while the boat is transitioning from \u201cbackwards to frontwards\u201d momentum, the wind will tend to straighten the boat out.<\/p>\n

Transition<\/strong> \u2026 what are the steps to follow to go from \u201cbackwards to frontwards?\u201d It might look like this
\n\u2022 Go to neutral
\n\u2022 Straighten the rudder
\n\u2022 Shift to forward at low RPM to stop the boat and let the bow \u201cblow down\u201d
\n\u2022 Throttle up to a safe fairway speed<\/p>\n

Most years, there are four to six weeks of unbelievable San Francisco Bay weather between the \u201cfirst storm\u201d of the fall, and the onset of winter storms. We typically see the first storm right about the last week of September. It came through last week. The winter storms begin to hit about the middle of November. In between, the sailing is phenomenal! There is enough breeze to have a great time and its warm enough for shirt sleeves (sometimes less).<\/p>\n

Get out there and enjoy this very fleeting time of San Francisco Bay\u00a0sailing! Just remember to adjust your \u201cclose quarters skills\u201d for the actual conditions, not what we have experienced all summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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