Did you know that you can make your boat swim better and faster when you rift the main sail? You might think that sails for sailing were intended only for strong winds. But often your boat will swim more smoothly, faster and easier with this simple, easy-to-use technique. Here are five quick steps to apply this sailing technique on your sailboat today!
Rifting means reducing the amount of sail acting on the wind. Have you ever climbed onto the roof of your house or went outside to get fresh air on the upper floors of a tall building. If it is an easy day, this wind will blow with more force above the ground than near the ground.
Sailing winds are similar. Near the top of the sailboat mast, the wind blows at a much higher speed (speed) than the wind near the surface of the water. This is due to the fact that the wind on the surface slows down due to friction or contact with or near the surface of the water. Coming above the water, the wind encounters less friction, so it blows with greater speed.
When do you need the reef of your sailboat?
In a sailing boat, which has a grotto on a high mast, on the upper part of the sail there is more wind blowing on it than the lower part. Sometimes it can catch a boat heavily. When you catch heels too much, the rail or the outer edge of the boat can be dipped into the water. This makes the boat slow down.
It can also cause the weather steering - or boat pulling to round (direct) the wind. You will learn that your boat has too much weather steering when it becomes difficult to hold the wheel or the cashier and keep the boat on its sailing course.
Put the balance back in the reefing sailboat. Reefing reduces the amount of sail area (surface area) up. When you reef, you lower the grotto down closer to the surface of the water. This gives a cave of those higher speed sailing winds, because of which you descend so much. Here are five steps you need to take to reef your sailing boat. They are written for short sailing crews. So only with yourself and with another person you can reef your boat.
1. Prepare your main reef sail
Before you go for a couple of days, prepare your boat for the reef. This will save you a lot of time and effort when you sail and find that you need to reef the grotto.
Rivi (thread) stretch a long piece of line from the blade on one side of the mast, up through the rhyme sleeve (ring) and drop down to the blade on the other side of the mast.
Take a long piece of line from the eye mounted on one side of the boom end, up through the mounting grooved sleeve, back to the cheek block (flat block) on the other side of the boom end and to the blade near the front end of the boom.
2. Head down to the wind.
Direct the bow as close as possible to the wind. Take the grotto with a thrill. This relieves stress from trunk control lines and files to simplify ribbing. Loosen the boom lift (line that extends from the end of the boom to the top of the mast to keep the end of the boom up) until it has a lot of slack. Loosen the boom until it collapses. Loosen the main mesh so that it has slack.
3. Lower, Reef and Luff Tension
Uncover the main-halyard. Lower the main sail about halfway down the mast of the sailboat. Release the halyard to keep it in place. Pull the rhyming line of the sleeve to remove all slack and remove it. Lift the main as high as possible manually; then wrap three turns around the winch with files.
Grind on the winch until you see a light vertical crease along the grotto's life. Stop grinding. Loosen the core slightly until the fold disappears. Lean back from the grotto.
4. Reef and voltage Klyu
Open the circular line of grooves from the boom. Move (pull hard) onto the line until the mounting bushing and the end of the boom come together. Often you will not be able to pull the fist down to the top of the arrow. Unhook the steep reef line.
Make a simple line of piping to pull the torque sleeve closer to the top of the boom. Pass the 18-inch line through the mounting grooved sleeve, pull it onto the rhyme sleeve and secure the shunt line under the boom with a square knot.
5. Test the helmet for balance “feather-weight”
Check out the results of your efforts. Take two or three fingers and see if you can steer your boat with a tiller or wheel and keep it on course. If you can do this, you have achieved perfect sailing balance. Keep fighting steering to sail course? Continue to reef, but move to the nose. If you have a twisted headache, roll the brain enough to gain control of the steering with a finger. If necessary, change to smaller headaches, like a working arrow.
Use these five simple steps and sailing tips to learn to reef the main sail and achieve the ultimate goal of perfect balance. You will be rewarded with blazing speed, power and performance - wherever you choose swimming!
