How to avoid a Chinese Gybe :- GTR Racing
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Published 2016-08-17
The Chinese Gybe or Death Roll is an uncontrolled gybe, the are many factors which can lead to this which are explained in detail in the video, including some top tips to avoid it from happening to you.
If you get it wrong the top of the main sail will flip from leeward to windward, as the wind fills in it will force the boat to bear away often with such force that that skipper can not correct the unwanted turn by moving the rudder. The result is an uncontrolled gybe which will often result in the boat laying flat in the water.
In this case the recovery was made more difficult as we lost control of the spinnaker which made getting the boat back under control even more difficult.
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All Comments (9)
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Well, it may be the result of the clip, but it appears to me that they had too much sail up, and not enough guys controlling the strings. Letting the main wang over like that could have resulted in a fatality. That stay sail might have been better off down, at least for the gybe. I thing that few yachtsmen know is when to lessen the sail area, at the risk of some speed in order to maintain control. Too much reliance on the 'Christ I hope it all works out OK' way of racing.
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Neat video. 'Quite broad' is an understatement I think. Judging from the boats heading upwind around you, you were sailing by the lee during the set so were already very close to gybing. That's also why the chute filled like it did. If the vang had not been eased so much, you probably would have gybed much earlier.
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Well,, Good analysis but the guy with the cigarette?, Did he really need that thing lit with the boat over on its side? And I'm glad the kid was wearing a pfd, at first it didn't look like he had one on but he was picked up by it. He may have been scared but he will recover and maybe by now he has his own good respect for the water. But that cig... Sheesh
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This may be a really dumb question - but why does the boat not have some kind of boom brake so that the rig does not get damaged when slammed with this type of accidental gybe?
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At least old mate didn't lose his durry!
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Congrat .. Broach couldnt make wet your cigarette…:))
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and you "professional" sailors wonder why the rest of us "cruiser" sailors don't use, or fear spinnakers, Gennakers, and the like?....this is why, 'cause we own our boats, and don't want to sail them recklessly. (PS: I didn't see any Chinese on that boat, so why dance the Chinese jibe?).
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"Chinese" jibe?? Really? I think your bow and mast men should lay off the Chinese buffet and focus on rigging the gear correctly. And your first move with the tiller was the wrong direction. How about no stopper knots in your spin sheets and guys. Spin trimmer should have blown that sheet as soon the spin center-of-effort went laterally to windward.
