09-12-2011, 01:38 PM
I've flipped a Hobie 16 on several occasions. Kind of scary if you're flying one pontoon and bury the other in a wave. You can go from very fast to very slow rather quickly.
An end over end flip is called a "pitchpole". Never quite did one of those, but came close.
cbelt3 - did you go to Camp Sea Gull? (you're in NC, right?). I learned to sail in part on Lightnings on a mountain lake in western NC. These were very old wooden boats. All gone now as the camp reached a point where they couldn't maintain them.
A couple of years ago I was out with my two younger kids on a Rhodes 19 in the Virgin Islands. It was a very windy morning. We ended up sailing with a reef and no jib, and were still almost getting knocked down in the gusts. Glad we had a keel and were in a protected sound.
- Winston
An end over end flip is called a "pitchpole". Never quite did one of those, but came close.
cbelt3 - did you go to Camp Sea Gull? (you're in NC, right?). I learned to sail in part on Lightnings on a mountain lake in western NC. These were very old wooden boats. All gone now as the camp reached a point where they couldn't maintain them.
A couple of years ago I was out with my two younger kids on a Rhodes 19 in the Virgin Islands. It was a very windy morning. We ended up sailing with a reef and no jib, and were still almost getting knocked down in the gusts. Glad we had a keel and were in a protected sound.
- Winston