weather helm

They were also very wet at high speeds and suffered from a slight weather helm.

They suffered from slight weather helm in a swell and made severe leeway.

A sizable junk can have a rudder that needs up to three members of the crew to control in strong weather helm.

As more heeling force causes more heel, weather helm may be experienced.

The helmsman, can reduce weather helm significantly, simply by sheeting out the mainsail.

A swing keel lifted halfway is the perfect treatment for weather helm on a gaffer.

He filled the topsails, gave her weather helm, and still she slid backwards in this insane contradiction of all known principles.

Weather helm is the opposite of Lee Helm.

This behavior is known as the "helm" and is either a weather helm or lee helm.

It is the opposite of Weather helm which is the tendency of a sailboat to "round up" into the wind.

Some twist is desirable, but too much can induce weather helm or ruin the slot between the mainsail and jib.

The German Navy regarded the ships as good sea boats, with slight weather helm and gentle motion in a swell.

The ships handled less easily than the preceding Braunschweig-class ships, though they suffered less marked weather helm.

Broaching most typically happens when a boat is on a broad reach with spinnaker set and there is an overpowering weather helm.

Small amounts ( 5 degrees) of weather helm are generally considered desirable because of the consequent aerofoil lift effect from the rudder.

The waterline is as nearly symmetrically heeled as possible, eliminating much of the weather helm caused by heeling.

There is nobody at the wheel, the wheel is not even lashed and is set over a half-spoke weather helm.

In some sailboats, the trailing edge of the keel has a trim tab which is used to null out rudder forces (lee or weather helm).

Any action that reduces the angle of heel of a boat that is reaching or beating to windward will help reduce weather helm.

Weather helm also provides a form of dead man's switch-the boat stops safely in irons if the helm is released for a length of time.

'I've never understood the appeal of a cat-boat,' I said, 'all that great big undivided sail and weather helm and barn-door rudder.

Lee helm, the opposite of weather helm, is generally considered to be dangerous because the vessel turns away from the wind when the helm is released.

If weather helm builds further, it can limit the ability of the helmsman to steer the boat, which can be turned towards but not effectively away from the wind.

See Sailing Theory and Practice by C.A. Marchaj for a mathematical analysis of the dynamics of weather helm.

In the book "Sailing Illustrated", Patrick M. Royce defines weather helm as simply a "heeling sailboat wanting to come head to wind."