maybe take the topsail down, maybe time for a deeper reef?

[Paul Pless]

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[mizzenman]

Just make sure the hatches are closed and you are ok

[David W Pratt]

Relying on the buoyancy of the main boom, since they can't ease it out

[johnw]

Can't actually ease the main, with the boom in the water...

[Figment]

bah, we're almost at the mooring field, she can take it.

[Rich Jones]

Looks like the topsail is a bit slack, so they might have just started to strike that sail. Of course, at this point, everyone is just hangng on for dear life until they come out of that gust.

[CWSmith]

The windward helm must be impressive.

[Canoeyawl]

Those sail battens must be 10 ft long 2x6's

[SeanM26]

That's a yee-haw moment if I've ever seen one.

[skuthorp]

I was 'casual' crew on a 1911 English built gaff cutter in 35kts once. Double reefed main and the deck was still at 45 degrees.
No modern winches, 30 on board as rail meat. Wet, exciting, scary, fantastic! I've never felt so much power in a boat.

[Paul Pless]

That's a yee-haw moment if I've ever seen one.

yup, pretty sure it went something like this, “oh look, there’s old fuddyduddy (alfred beken) with his camera, let’s give him a sailby. . .”

[moTthediesel]

“Now she takes it!”

[Stiletto]

Do you know where the shot was taken?

[Dave Lesser]

Can't actually ease the main, with the boom in the water...

That's how Martha got knocked down at the Port Townsend schooner race a couple of years ago.

[SeanM26]

yup, pretty sure it went something like this, “oh look, there’s old fuddyduddy (alfred beken) with his camera, let’s give him a sailby. . .”

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Those are surely Dacron sails, so it’s perhaps not such an old picture.

[BETTY-B]

That's how Martha got knocked down at the Port Townsend schooner race a couple of years ago.

Huh!?!? How did I miss that one? Got pics?