{"id":14045,"date":"2011-03-03T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=14045"},"modified":"2011-03-13T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T04:00:06","slug":"riding-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/riding-sails\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Riding-sails-100.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Riding-sails-100.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Riding-sails-100.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the breeze starts to blow at anchor most yachts will shear &#8211; sail back and forth &#8211; at anchor. This can be uncomfortable, and substantially increases the load on ground tackle. The answer to this is a riding sail.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Riding-sails-101.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Riding-sails-101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Riding-sails-101.jpg\" width=\"563\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a ketch or yawl a bit of mizzen will hold you steady. Single stickers need a &#8220;backstaysail&#8221; hanked on the backstay (for more information on riding sails and backstaysails see our <em>Offshore Cruising Encylopedia<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Riding sails also pay ventilation dividends in lighter airs as staying head to wind offers the best air flow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Riding-sails-105.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Riding-sails-105.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Riding-sails-105.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What you do not want to do is use the mainsail as shown here. The area is too far forward and will exacerbate shearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the breeze starts to blow at anchor most yachts will shear &#8211; sail back and forth &#8211; at anchor. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/riding-sails\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}