
I want to share with you a reflection on a time, many sailors will surely drift lived: the moment of capsizing !
My first lesson of the course consisted of sailing in a boat capsized and straighten.
Good! This lesson will be one of the few lessons you learn right away and know play it in different facets. Anyone who is not an athlete will become, unless you are a gymnast jumps and do crazy stunts to try to do our small boat capsized because, I assure you, after the tenth capsizing, the more strength you will not!
And why should our boat capsized?
If you are on a cabin cruiser that capsized and called for help, and hope it's a sunny day, because there will already be your tears of desperation wetting the face, because if a cabin cruiser capsize, it means that There have been serious, even grave damage to the boat, for example having unintentionally dismasted.
If you are on a drift have capsized because the reasons are threefold:
- not know to go sailing, very likely;
- not have anticipated the barrage of weight training 30Kns that had been made, this fact is very likely;
- you incaramellato gennaker, probable;
- or have committed other damage to the coffin (but here we move on 1).
Scuffia is not synonymous with boating do not know, wrong because you learn, and the sailing boat is a living example of this axiom, or said, if you prefer.
Straighten the boat requires a lot of energy, therefore, aimed at girls or boys skinny, take as a good team mate "fustacchione", which is a lot of fitness, so you do the better part of spooned.
First, the boat may capsize 90 °, a very welcome event, or 180 ° case much more difficult.
To straighten you need to position our boat on the drift, where we will leverage. Before doing so we must check that:
1.il our comrade is alive and well, especially next to the boat;
2. the sails have to be left, or the sheets are NOT to be AREAS. If not, when the boat will straighten, re-scuffierà again and it will continue indefinitely.
3. preferably the bow must be placed in the wind.

When we are at 90 °, a crew member you spooned and see that all the sheets are free, place your feet under the strap (straps allow you to go out with the rest of the body, put your feet under them), and expects the beautiful "fustacchione" right the boat. After that bar Barley! If not all the work that goes down the drain. When the crew is on board, we can go sailing.
The evil that has happened to straighten the boat, you should not hang with forearms to our benefit, because otherwise you find yourself, as has already happened, with bruises on his arms as if he fell off a cliff, and in addition to being aesthetically beautiful, they are not even good.
not know about you, but I came out of breath just writing, so it is for this reason that sailors become the perfect acrobats to avoid capsizing, at least when you can.
a move much appreciated is the famous "Jumping Cat", which is to jump on the drift (exactly on the part closest to the hull, to avoid it straight now), so that the boat goes 180 degrees. Unfortunately, very often fails, and the sailors find themselves tattooed with the mark on the backside of the drift. Ouch!
Apart from this, the capsizing remain in the hearts of sailors, as memories of mistakes, hard work and lots of laughter ... Just do not do as these two in photos, that they forgot to set the drift to the hull, and ... Pluf!
Fair winds to all!
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