Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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Many thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out last week’s survey on emergency steering in the case of serious rudder failure or damage (ie. Orcas). Of those who answered,\u00a0 27% say they would trail a drogue from amidships cleats, 21% would use the rudder on their windvane, 19% have no plan for steering without a rudder,\u00a0 19% would trail warps from the stern, 11% would jury rig the spinnaker pole, and 2% would use an emergency spare rudder.<\/p>\n
Reader comments include: catamaran owners would either use an undamaged rudder or use their twin engines to steer,\u00a0 several indicated that trailing a drogue\u00a0 or bucket is the best plan while several said adjusting the sails and tying off the tiller or wheel will steer their boats. And, several readers noted that there are no Orcas in the Grate Lakes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0 Do you have an in-boom furling mainsail system on your boat?\u00a0 Many thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out last week’s survey on emergency steering in the case of serious rudder failure or damage (ie. Orcas). Of those who answered,\u00a0 27% say they would trail a drogue from amidships cleats, 21% would use the rudder on their windvane, 19% have no plan for steering without a rudder,\u00a0 19% would trail warps from the stern, 11% would jury rig the spinnaker pole, and 2% would use an emergency spare rudder. Reader comments include: catamaran owners would either use an undamaged rudder or use their twin engines to steer,\u00a0 several indicated that trailing a drogue\u00a0 or bucket is the best plan while several said adjusting the sails and tying off the tiller or wheel will steer their boats. And, several readers noted that there are no Orcas in the Grate Lakes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41315,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41313\/revisions\/41315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}