So OK .... Just a simple tropical storm ... about 1.5 m over open water from King Park. 500 lb mushroom, city required amount of both heavy and light chain to ball. Wind S ~50 or so with gusts above.

I guess this is why we don't ride out storms at anchor in a small boat. This is 8th hurricane for a Vee Jay in Newport without damage.

Many thanks for sharing!

I saw a similar huricane video of Vee Jay on the news last night

As a relative newbe, I too have noticed that the J-30 tends to sail around its anchor more than most boats I have experience with. Not that I am proposing to use one in a full hurricane, but has anyone deployed an anchor sail to keep her head into the wind? How do you rig one?
Thanks

yes there was indeed an article here on the class site for a riding sail. its a tiny triangle with grommets, more like a triangular flag. it may ride from the boom to the backstay, pointy end fowrward.

From the menu at the top mouse over "Info", "Articles of Interest", and click on "Building a Parking Sail"

Further south of Vee Jay ... I think a Beneteau ~40 looking like its sailing just as hard.

Re steadying sail ... also consider that unlike a number of boats where you can come up to a mooring in decent wind and leave the main tight and stay pretty stable ... if I come up to the mooring and honk down the main sheet ... the boat will start to sail, get snubbed by the mooring ... make a fast turn and gain speed etc etc. until it JIBES!!! J24s seem to have same characteristic.

We have to come into the mooring and really keep the main loose once we have cleated the mooring. In decent air, I try to get the crew to drop main as soon as mooring snubbed, same for sailing off ... drop mooring as soon as main is locked up.

roger, roger National TV Fox O'Reilly report ... unfortunately their Vee Jay clip got dropped on the web edition ... The Inn on Long Wharf was their shooting spot and well sheltered from the S wind.

depth of water at mooring ~20 ft. most of the harbor same as it was dredged out of a shallow cove back in mid 1800s.

My boat sails harder and faster than that in 5kts at anchor! Parking sail needed for me!