[Alberg30] Storm Sails (Positive Stability Range)

George Dinwiddie gdinwiddie at alberg30.org
Wed Mar 5 09:39:38 PST 2003


I think you want to square first, and then take 5%.  36 squared is 1296 
square feet.  5% of that is 64.8 square feet.

My old copy of Heavy Weather Sailing (third revised edition) doesn't 
seem to have that recommendation, so I can't verify it.

  - George

Alfredo wrote:
> ok, so 5% would be about 1.8' Squared would give us an area of 3.24
> sq feet. is this right? A storm jib of 3.24 sq feet? 

Christos Katehis <GreekSailor at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
 > The forestay length is
> the "I" measurement of the sail plan which is 36'.

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