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Getting ‘Out of Irons’ in a
sloop or single sailed boat.
(pics are for a single sail but procedure is the same with a jib - you
can help the bow to come across
the wind by backing the jib)
2. Curses! Caught In
Irons! no steerage way
and being blown leeward and backwards!
intended course
right: Selway
Fisher Pipit
Hampton Flattie sloop rigged
3.
1.On Starb’d tack preDon’t panic!
let the mains’l fly
helm 45 degrees to
port
6.
4.
paring to come about
she’ll drop off the
wind
5.
helm midships
haul in the main sheet
and she’ll resume the
starboard tack - build
up some speed before
attempting to go about
again