Spinnaker broach on Dufour 34 Performance

Panic, ignorance, or both.

Very good recovery, they did all the right stuff to get the boat back upright quickly and safely.

@jonnyrebel1000 On the slugs you sail maybe you might get away with that, on the performance keelers and sportsboats I sail the vang and main are trimmed by seperate crew working together, and if the boom hits before the vang comes off you are toast, happens quick at 20-25knots downwind, not that you would know!! So jonnyfuckwit, back to the rear of the fleet with you where you belong, and leave guys like me and my boys to win regatta's !!!

@bigkiwial Hmmm, any chance you could make a comment without being rude, YOU FUCKING TWAT. Thank goodness I never sail with you, I'd implant a winch handle in your head before the first gybe. Ease the main sheet is a first resort, always trim the main, if the main drops to far to leward and hits the water, dump the kicker. Now you can try this and learn to control a broach properly, instead of being a arrogant fool. Thank you.

@biscayforce12 Excellent observation. When on the main sheet, jib sheet, and spinnaker sheet...............you have to help the helmsman... and to do that you need to be totally and always aware and ready. Or step aside and let someone more able take your spot. Sailing is a series of high-excitement with quite periods in between. Cheers Mark

@damon4130 Broach, broach and broach

@bigkiwial, fight me cunt.

@bryce65 Fucking idiot, letting go of the brace, the guy or the pole sheet whatever a wanker like you wants to call it will only power up the kite even more as the boat is already sideways and the kite would go further round pulling the boat over even more, the only way out is to dump the trimming sheet and hope its not to short (like your brain) and as an absolute last resort, dump the halyard, you know fuck all dipshit.

@bigkiwial, letting the brace off would depower the spinnaker, therefore reducing the severity of the broach and round up. Get your facts right.

What a hot dog.

That skipper's nuts for running into a harbor with that much sail on. What's he thinking?

penso l'abbia mollato piu che averlo rotto il circuito, se lo avesse tenuto e lo spy si fosse riempito di acqua...bè si sa

katastrofe !! :)

very risky !!!

So why wasn't the main sheet let go?

big balls or little brains... Perhaps a combination of the two :P

Not close to a broach.... But it's a pretty risky place to fly a kite :)

What an awful place to be flying a spinnaker.

The dipshit that let the brace go would get a kicking!!

not a big deal, just a little scary at the moment its happening