At sea the Coast Guard wanted to board they gave an order to drop sails and be prepaired for boarding , so i hove to and becouse sails stayed up the young boson kept trying to come along but kept over shooting my vessal . The kept shouting for me to stop the boat and said but i am stopped . After a few tryes they they made it aboard and were perplexed at how all sails were flying yet no foreward momentum. In the end it turned out to be a fun experience for the coasties. My opinion is that knowing how to heave to and slowing down your vessal in strong weather are the most important skills to know and practice. Ps your vids im sure are not only saving lives but making folks more confident and therefor happier at sea! Thanks!

Awesome video and demonstration. One of the best examples of heaving to I’ve seen on KZfaq

Another great video. By far the most concise explanation I have seen. The way you present your information is perfect for a beginner like me. I feel like after watching your videos I can go and practice the maneuvers myself. I really appreciate all the work you put into these videos.

Practice Practice Practice, every boat hoves too different. My long keel rawson 30 lays hove too nicely at 40° to wind with no forsail. Great for making lunch taking a break ect. Lynn and Larry Parday Storm tactics is a great read on the subject. Storm rider sea anchour from New Zealand is next on my wish list.

Wonderfully explained and demonstrated. The animation was very clear! The gold standard of instruction, nothing is as good as this video!

Also depending on the condition the starboard tack is preferred when heaving to, because of rules of the road, and you are still technically sailing. Great for a lunch break.

I’m just reading Storm tactics by Lin & Larry Pardey This is a skill as important as any in your sailing knowledge that’s for sure. Thank you for a really clear demonstration I’ve hit the subscribe button

Excellent video. The best I have watched concerning this topic. Thanks !!

Fantastic explanation, thank you for posting this!

Outstanding! I’m heading to Grenada in 2 wks, we will be aboard a 41’ monohull and we will definitely be practicing this maneuver, gybing and others you have demonstrated! Thanks for the no-nonsense, to-the-point tutorials. Very much appreciated!

it was a great video. Thanks

Great video with some real-life demonstrations and details, as well as technical diagrams on what's actually happening WRT the opposing forces.

Another great video! Thanks for doing these.

I first learned about "heaving to" reading Johnny Wray's South Sea Vagabonds. Then again reading Erling Tambs' The Cruise of the Teddy. And I'm now just beginning Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World. I mention all these wonderful first-hand sailing books because except for one time while in my late 20s when a friend took me a long on his sailboat on Cayuga Lake in upstate New York, I've never been sailing since, and I'm now 73 years old. Reading about sailing this way has allowed to appreciate sailing and how wonderful it is. Thank you for this very nice video on heaving to!

Exelente explained. So important and most forgotten procedure. Thanks for the video. Fair winds.

Awesome stuff!

Nice execution. Thanks, Marco

Wow this was very helpful to me. I did not know the rudder was so important; thought it was all about the head and the main working against one another. But I'm a yet to be sailor so perhaps that is why :)

Outstanding video on an essential skill for safe and comfortable sailing. Thank you!!

Thank you! Beautifully explained

Thanks, very concise.

great info and best explanation !

The diagram at the end is exactly what I was looking for to fully understand. Thank you!

Outstanding TY very much!! Your presentation is the most clear and complete that I have seen.

Thank you for sharing. Your explanation is clear and concise, and if I may add, uniquely yours - especially the way you animated and described the slow drift of the boat in tandem with the balancing forces between the jib and rudder in hove to as 'falling leaf pattern'. I must say this instruction is the best I have ever come across.

Good and useuful video, thanks (Tarcísio, Azores Islands)

this was one of the best and simple videos on this topic thank you so much you got me to subscribe

Great share, thanks.

Hi hope your well. Have a safe and happy Christmas. Best wishes from leeds UK

Awesome video, thank you! It would be great, if you could get into the controversies and details about heaving to in heavy weather in another video. Thanks!

Thank you very much for these videos, top job! Would be nice to hear the controversy around heaving to as a storm tactic and a video about storm tactics and heavy weather overall? Thanks for these videos, it's straight forward without normal youtube bs!

very very nice Sharing My dear respected friend Big Likes and Great Love from Ahmed Ali Nizamani.

Ty man

Thank you.

i do it to reef down the main. i also use the staysail or storm jib in the stay sail position to reduce the pressure on the rig.

Hi.. great work. This is the best most succinct vid on heaving to I've ever seen. Could you add a diagram to the come about video like you did here?

By far the best & clearest explanation with a live demonstration of heave-to. Thank you! I have a question about your main sheets... do they go through/under the dodger? what type of boat is that? Thank you- keep up the good work. You're probably helping more people than you could possibly know.

Hey Marco!. Love the video. Hope you are doing well brother.

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Another good one. And the length of your videos is excellent.?

Any suggestions for a light fin keeled fractional rig? Beneteau f235 here. I have tried this a few times in the Hudson and she has trouble on the “stall” moving leeward so fast as to not heave. Great videos, keep up the good work.

Great video, will recommend to others, all hulls / sail configurations hove to differently so this is worth bearing in mind when practising. Also, downwind speed can be significant, watch out for lee shores!

Is it typical for the main to flog while hove to? Is it acceptable to sheet the main or put on the kicker to reduce the strain on the main? Thanks. Great video.

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Any consideration to genoa chafing if you needed to heave to for an extended period of time?

Thank you for this clear explanation ❤. I am gonna try this in mild breeze cause it looks like the leeward side goes down a lot while heaving to. We sail a dufour 29 with torpedo keel. Can this be achieved in all windconditions?

If the wind changes direction while your heaved to, will you have to do the maneuver again?

Hello Marco great video again !! How to do that with self tacking jib ?

Great video! Is there a situation where you would not lock the rudder?

My ETAP 24i will not "heave to". My friend, who is an RYA Ocean Instructor, had tried and said the boat is too lively to heave to.

We have a tiller so not sure how to do that as can't lock wheel.

Would doing this maneuver in a heavy chop put you in danger of being capsized? I’ve never sailed before but I’m thinking that in a beam reach position the boat is broadside to the waves? Forgive my ignorance.

What would happen if you motor while hove-to? Would the boat maintain its hove-to course?

Is the process the same on a cat?

Such a good tutorial. The music is truly terrible though. The quality of the vocals is heavily distorded as well because the mic is setup all wrong. Probably the most used piece of 'music' in the history of KZfaq. All these cheap Chinese tech advertisers have beaten this specific one to death. I may have heard it a million times by now (yeah I know...) Come on man ;;) You can easily fix the clipping vocals in post as well. Remember, the KZfaq algorithm is keen on audio quality so it is pretty important not to have a bad mix or something that sounds like one of the millions of Dropshipping product ads in the first few seconds)., I'm sorry my music producer's mind had to chime in... rock on!