Emergency Steering
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- S/V Kinetic simulates loss of rudder under sail by locking rudder amidships. After balancing the sails to hold course, we deployed a makeshift drogue off the stern, controlled by lines to the primary winches. By moving the drogue to the side of the boat, the drag created turns the boat.
Genius. I have been a mariner 55 years and never thought about such a common sense solution. about the ever constant possibility of loosing steerage. Of it would have to be improvised to suit the vessel and conditions at the time , yet the general principle logically would work.
Nice! If you attach a short string to the bucket between the two long strings and wrap a string around the top of the bucket, you will reduce the load on the bucket and it will last longer
Would have been good to see the wake behind you and so the steerage effect
You know, and I know this had an effect on steering the boat to starboard, would have been nice to actually seeing te boats wake and or compass to demonstrate the turn and rate of turn.
I lived the experience of a broken rudder cable, in the middle of the night the wheel suddenly was held for a second which was enough to counteract with the pilot, and the cable under broke. Luckily the boat model Beneteau at the time had a well with an axe to use a prepared safety rudder stick, but I held that thing throughout the night to Huahine. Ever since I juge a boat by its handling of rudder going wrong or ....falling off, solutions need to be thought well before departure.
You could have saved the Bismark
usually, when you lose steering, the rudder does not lock itself amidships. Try emergency steering with rudder left loose as when the rope or chain breaks.
thats what i though
Exactly
That's when you jettison said rudder
Great topic and video, thanks for sharing just subscribed looking forward to seeing more from your channel…
I have a 5 m dinghy, well balanced, and I can easily steer it by adjusting the mainsail and jib. Furthermore, wouldn't your system be more effective with a floating anchor, which is often found in the equipment of a cruiser? good luck...
Learned this trick from S/V Tritea
Excellent.
Balancing the sail at the same time. I actually used this technique on a dinghy with a life jacket, just to get back to shore safely
A quote credited to Colin Powell comes to mind... if its stupid and it works then its not stupid.
With the orca attacks at Gibraltar, this would be a good thing to try before sailing trough there.
What a great idea.
The only thing you need is a bucket as strong as a tanker...
does the rudder usually lock in place when steering is lost on a sailboat.. or would it be turning freely against the current.. back and forth...????????????
That depends on the steering mechanism - a cable could jam the rudder in a fixed position, or break and let it swing. Or, the rudder could break off entirely.
extending on @Leifur Thor ‘s idea - use a floor board to be the emergency rudder blade, connect it to the bathing ladder on one the front side and attach the lines on the rear end as demonstrated in the video. Non of us hopefully will have to test this, but who knows. In this year’s ARC a boat had to be given up for a broken rudder in mid of the Atlantic.
a hand held compass showing change in your direction when deployed would have been kool..
nice outbound 46
Love it
Saw someone lose his rudder crossing pacific ocean. And he was using this.
The sail was slow but he arrived to his destination. The good thing is. He didnt know what to do at first and some communcation radio or what not helped him.
For got his channel.
Sailing Tritaia, I towed him in once he reached Waikiki.
A rowing paddle will do the job ….
yes, we tried different ways to extend an oar. Good time to have a hydrovane as an emergency rudder!
Grand in calm weather
I couldn't hear the voice when the wake was flowing
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the drougue