Getting ‘Out of Irons’
in a yawl
37
WIND
fore arrow shows
direction of travel of boat
intended course
2.
3.
let foresail
fly, sheet in
mizzen
4.
Tiller hard over
to starboard
5.
caught in
irons!
1.
On starboard tack
preparing to go
about
back fores’l
let mizzen fly
6. set foresail
helm midships
7. set mizzen, adjust
for weather helm, you
may have to bear away
a couple of points (a
few degrees)to build up
speed before resuming
the port tack close haul
left: Selway Fisher 17’ Baltic Lugger
here rigged as a lugger yawl