Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Monday 11 May 2015

More on weather helm

Simeon gave me a good web link

Apparently we don't talk about weather he ml in polite sailing circles....sorry guys! Major phoopah!

http://johnvigor.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/some-cures-for-griping.html

Steve 

4 comments:

Stuart said...

A little weather helm is MUCH better than lee helm as the man says. Better to come up in to the wind than broaching (I think!). It may be noisy, but you have a few moments to decide your response. WH be wearing, but only if you stay on the same tack for a long time.
In your comment the other day about how to stop, having a go at heaving to is well worth the practice (although with your experience, I'm sure you do it all the time).

Steve-the-Wargamer said...

Rubbish... plenty of weather helm in my boat... :o))

steve said...

I was being slightly tongue in cheek guys
Yup
Heaving to is done regularly in Arwen

Alden Smith said...

The best helm is a balanced helm, where the yacht steers herself for long periods - some of these old designs (usually deeper forefoots, longer keels than modern designs) that did self steer still had enough 'feel' in the helm to make steering enjoyable.