Re: Single handed sailing
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My preference is to have the jib sheets separate, but long enough to be able to hang some over the windward gunwale when close hauled. It's on this point of sail that you're most likely to want to dump wind out of the sails quickly in a gust. If you ease the main but delay the jib the boat will bear away and the main will fill again, causing more heel and heading you towards a capsize. Tying the sheets together certainly ensures you don't lose the end on the floorboard, but may mean having to reach in to grab it in a gust, shifting your weight in from where it should be if you are hiked out. I much prefer to have it by my backside where I know I can lay my hand on it every time. It makes for more efficient tacking too, as I pick up the other sheet when moving across the boat, and initially tension it by sitting on it as I hike out the other side. I cleat it once I've settled onto the new course.
A decent slab reefing system is also pretty handy if you're single handed, as most of my Wanderer sailing was. I've moved on to a boat with a lid now, but still miss W550.
Happy sailing, Alan.
Hi All,
I have been sailing my Hartley Wanderer with crew but am planning to have a go single handed.
Do people regularly do this?
If anyone has any helpful advice on doing this or any modifications to make this easier, that would be much appreciated.?
The boat is already rigged so that the Kicker, Cunnigham and Outhaul have long lines coming back to the thwarts.
Many thanks,
Peter
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