Hobie Cat 16 Downwind Sailing in Uppsala, Sweden

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Uploaded by on May 26, 2008

High adrenaline downwind sailing. Video downloaded from thebeachcats.com. Great footage!

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  • Great bit of sailing and you gotta come up laughing when you do the dive. I always do, my 16 is known locally as "Das Boot"!

  • @slateer55 why the negativity? 

  • Nice Sailing Guy's

  • Almost pitchpoled a few times!!

  • In theory ... maybe, but practically when you are sailing on a broad reach on a H-16 in high winds you end up on the front 1/3 of the bows. I usually crew on a H-16. I skipper on my Nacra. On this point, I'm behind the skipper on the trapeze, one foot on the rear cross-bar one on the rail, skipper on tramp in corner. Popping the jib when the bows bury will allow them to pop up quickly, then (jib) sheet hard and you are back under way. If that's not enough the skipper needs to release too.

  • @abnorm58

    I'm a bit of a novice, but how would the crew releasing the jib have helped to prevent stuffing the lee bow? doesn't the jib create lift at the bow? Or would the benefit simply be to lose some momentum?

  • skipper... this ones on you... your crew blew the jib... and you still buried the nose... you should have been out on the trap... way back. We have all been there though... I love that point of sail in 20-25 kts.

  • Some of the best Hobie helmet cam on Youtube.

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