Here's the scene, I'm heading North on a nice Nor'easter when the weatherfax tells me I'm going to be hit by a
very big Southerly Buster...this is going to be like force ten + and I'm going to be on bare poles, but no worries I have
a nice big drogue to chuck out to slow me down. So the question is, when the storm's almost on me do I throw the
drogue off the stern or do I round up and throw it off the bow.
My thinking is.. If it's off the bow then I can hide behind the dodger out of the worst of it, and the boat would take the
sea better bow on. If it's off the stern then I'm exposed to every wind blown water all the time and every time I take
off the storm boards to go below half the Pacific Ocean is going to end up in the saloon.
But it raises the question of rounding up. Take a boat like MB's S&S 34, a proven blue water boat. At what point does
it become unsafe to round up, or is there a knack to turning into an approaching storm ??
So, what's it to be....Bow to or Stern to the storm.