[Public-list] lazy jacks

[Rod Symmes]

Perhaps so.......but what we CAN thank you for,  is keeping the old skills alive by passing them around and maybe a few of us will learn that some times the "low tech" ways work just fine.

Cheers,    Rod

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gordon Laco 
  To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [Public-list] lazy jacks


  Don't thank me - the sea furl is likely centuries old!

  Longer reef points won't help furling the mainsail because they will be
  inside the furled bundle.  The tail of the vang is perfect.

  Cheers - Gord





  > HI Gord, 
  > 
  > Great idea!  Can't wait to try it.
  > 
  > Have you tried putting longish tie downs at the forward end of 1st reef points
  > and use those to tie off the bundle of sail round the boom?
  > 
  > Glenn
  > -------------- Original message ----------------------
  > From: edward schroeder <eddiediver at sbcglobal.net>
  >> Gord; as an architect, I thought I had a good mind for visualizing
  >> descriptions. 
  >> I have no idea what you are describing but sure am interested. Ed. Schroeder
  >> #303
  >> 
  >> Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:  Oh here I go again...
  >> 
  >> I don't see any use for lazy jacks. If you use your first reef to hold the
  >> after end of the sail, and hold the first reef tack in your hand, you will
  >> have a trough that the sail will fall into as it comes down. If folds of it
  >> fall out, you make a tossing motion with the hand holding the tack and the
  >> sail with fall back in.
  >> 
  >> Easy as pie even with one person.
  >> 
  >> Cheers - Gord #426
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> 
  >>> Does anybody reading this list use lazy jacks? Any discussion for or
  >>> against?
  >>> 
  >>> The only real downside I can see is windage. I think I have a pretty good
  >>> plan for installing a system which will be deployed only when lowering the
  >>> sail, so it should not cause chafe on the sail, get snagged during gybes or
  >>> raising the sail, require modification to the cover, or present excessive
  >>> windage (it will normally store next to the mast on reef hooks at the
  >>> gooseneck while sailing).
  >>> 
  >>> Lowering the sail and keeping it captive on the boom for flaking is a pretty
  >>> big problem for me while sailing shorthanded and it appears that using lazy
  >>> jacks would be a relatively inexpensive and simple way to alleviate the
  >>> difficulty of doing this with only 2 people on board.
  >>> 
  >>> Thoughts?
  >>> 
  >>> J Bergquist
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