[Public-List] Roller Reefing

[Winslow Ayer]

I have noticed on the original drawings that there appears to be a inner forestay. Does anyone use this or am I just imagining it on the drawing. I have a furling headsail and at times I would like to have a smaller sail in strong winds.

Winslow

> On Oct 4, 2017, at 5:30 AM, Jonathan Bresler via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> "the convenience (of roller furling) still cant be beat"
> 
> You can say that again!   I also single hand the vast majority of the
> time.  Flaking and folding the genoa, at the end of the seaons for
> instance, takes me about 15 minutes, I guess, on the dock.  Spend nearly
> the whole time going back and forth from luff to leech matching the folds.
> If I had to do that every time, my guess is that I would sail less often.
> If not less often, then for shorter periods.
> 
> Charles, what do you to keep the body of the sail on the boat when changing
> to a smaller headsail in significant wind?   Once the sail is out of the
> furler, only the tack, head and clew are attached to the boat.  Seems to me
> that the body of the sail could go over the side, in the wind, quite easily.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:49 PM, charles pleisse via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
>> My furler is one of the early examples from Harkin.  If I recall correctly
>> the reciept for it is dated 1983 or 84.  The literature does talk about
>> reefing.  I don't use it in that way.  Way too much stress on the sail if
>> reefed enough to make a difference and the sail becomes far less
>> efficient.  I just go forward and change the sail.  I believe even that
>> process is made simpler with the furler as you don't have to fiddle with
>> the hanks.
>> All of our boats are/have been equipped with a boom that does the same
>> thing.  I've been around Albergs for the better part of a decade now and
>> have yet to see on reefing the main on the boom.  Roller reefing just
>> doesn't work.  Too many compromises.
>> As a person who singlhands 90% of the time, the convenience still cant be
>> beat. I can go to the boat and sail off the hook under headsail without
>> leaving the cockpit, save for letting go of the mooring.
>> 
>> Charles Pleisse
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