What catamaran is Nahoa?
What catamaran is Nahoa?
Lagoon 410 catamaran
Nahoa is a production Lagoon 410 catamaran built in 2005.
What causes a yacht to broach?
A broach is an abrupt, involuntary change in a vessel’s course, towards the wind, resulting from loss of directional control, when the vessel’s rudder becomes ineffective. This can be caused by wind or wave action. A wind gust can heel (lean) a sailing vessel, lifting its rudder out of the water.
What causes a boat to broach?
Broaching is when the boat heels too far to one side, or capsizes. The boat falls on its ear, its bow driving into the direction of the wind. The mast tips sideways, forcing its sails to sweep the water’s surface or submerge. A broach can shred sails and toss crewmen overboard.
What is the purpose of heaving to?
In sailing, heaving to (to heave to and to be hove to) is a way of slowing a sailing vessel’s forward progress, as well as fixing the helm and sail positions so that the vessel does not have to be steered.
What is lying to in sailing?
Lying a-hull means to drop all sails, fixing the helm to a set position. This way, the boat drifts following the exact wind direction but it is placed in beam sea, although its effects are softened by the resistance offered by the boat sideslipping.
Where is Nahoa now?
Where are we now? After 6 years and sailing over half way around the world we find ourselves in Thailand preparing for the second half of the circumnavigation. We are about to embark on the most remote stretch of water, the Indian Ocean.
Where are sailing Nahoa from?
Sailing NAHOA is in Victoria, British Columbia. You gave your parents a run for their money.
What is a reaching sail?
Reaching. When the wind is coming from the side of the sailing craft, this is called reaching. A “beam reach” is when the true wind is at a right angle to the sailing craft.
What is helming in sailing?
Steering the boat is called helming and the person doing this is called the ‘Helm’ or ‘Helmsman’. You steer by easing the tiller away or pulling it towards you. Takes a bit of getting used to as the boat turns in the opposite direction to the way you move the tiller.
