[Public-list] Roller furling - or hanked on?

[George Dinwiddie]

Mike Lehman wrote:
> I'm with Brian on this one. I switched to a Schaeffer 1100 with a new 135% 
> and remain competitive, and have the added luxury of 'rolling up' to a 110 
> with good shape. A good example of how handy this is, was this past week on 
> the Fall Cruise. While sailing up the Chester River, the wind was from the 
> west. As the river took a bend to the west [not wide enough to tack upwind], 
> we simply rolled up and motored into the wind, the when the river turned 
> north at the next mark, we un-rolled, cut the motor and we sailing again. 

I did basically the same with the downhaul, though I didn't cut the 
motor--just cut it back to idle.  Of course, it cut itself off at one 
point.

  - George

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