Lowering Mainsail in 20mph wind and gust.
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:55 pm
Sailed at a Kiser Lake Ohio. Wind was 15 to 20mph. ok ill give it a shot. Rigged and launch. Launching was an issue due to wind. Sailed for 1hr and said "enough of this" only had mainsail up. Saw people launching kayaks and started to paddle. They helped me in. How do you lower main in that kind of wind condition so that the sail is not all over your cockpit? I have a topping lift and would like to flake it over the boom but the wind had the sail everywhere. Another heads up for Kiser lake. The dock is incredibly short leaving a small target considering the lake doesn't allow motors of any kind. My stern was hanging at least 4ft from the dock. Then the stern of my boat was was catching the wind while i was trying to trailer it. ANY IDEADS . Greatly Appreciated.