[quote=sjbrit][quote]If the wind is from the water to the shore, consider coming in on a broad reach (with your boards up like above) and a couple of waves out, let your jib go completely and loosen your main a lot and take the shore at an angle. Don't let the main battens get bent backward on the shroud- they will break.
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To de-power the main on a dead run or very broad reach, pull the traveller to the middle and crank the mainsheet down tight - that'll knock the power right out of it. Sail in on the job and then let the jib fly free when you are ready to coast in. Unfortunately you can't just let the main go or the sail will hit the shrouds and stay fully powered up.
On any point of sail a hard turn to windward will knock out a bunch of speed and get you in irons so the crew can jump off in a couple of feet of water and secure the cat. Make the crew jump off the side of the windward hull - never in between! it's very tempting to jump right in there, but no fun at all to get flattened from behind by a cat that hadn't quote stopped yet. Go ahead, ask me how I know.... ;-)[/quote]
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