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A Chinese Gybe is a particular type of accidental gybe, where the boom is trapped by a line (Running backstay, checkstay, preventer, etc.) and prevented from swinging fully across the boat, resulting in the mainsail being trapped near the centerline of the boat while full of wind, usually violently rounding the boat up and knocking it over onto its side. The boom must be untrapped in order to bring the boat back under control. A jibe or gybe is when a sailing boat (yacht) turns its stern through the wind, such that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the boat to the other. ...
An accidental gybe is a situation on a sailboat where, when running downwind, the boom is able to lift to such an extent that the head of the mainsail is allowed to "twist off" and becomes "backwinded". That is to say that the mainsail "feels" the wind on its leeward side. This results in the mainsail and the boom being blown across the boat in an uncontrolled fashion. It is extremely hard on yacht hardware and is potentially extremely dangerous for crew. Diagram of Sailboat, in this case a typical monohull sloop with a bermuda or marconi rig. ... Downwind refers to a position leeward of another (see Windward and leeward). ... In sailing, a boom is a spar (pole) usually made of aluminum or wood, is connected to the foot of the mainsail and allows the crew to control the angle of the sail to the wind. ... A mainsail is the most important sail raised from the main (or only) mast of a sailing vessel. ... Leeward is the side of a boat away from the direction where the wind is coming (i. ...
It can be brought about by particularly shifty winds or by a sea state moving the boat in a manner that markedly changes the angle of the apparent wind.
The Chinese hull (if we are speaking of the seagoing varieties) is a seaworthy shape and in normal circumstances has no need for such aids: and the Chinese boatman, for his part, will rarely spend money on anything which he does not consider strictly necessary.
Whereas the battens are bamboo, the yard of a Chinese sail is wood.
The shape of the Chinese sail, by contrast, is maintained and controlled by external features in the form of the battens and sheetlets.
I've always had a proper chinesegybe down as when the gaff gybes, but the boom doesn't, so the main splits from leech to luff.
A chinesegybe has always meant an un expected or unplanned gybe with the attendant chaos and recriminations that usually follow.
chinese downhill - a ski race where many competitors are dropped off at the top of a large mountain, usually by helicopter, and the first person to the bottom wins.
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