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.
