[Public-List] Roller Reefing

[Kris Coward]

For *shorter* periods? Am I the only one who's gone out single-handing
and thought "I've only been out for 3 hours; I don't want to have to
flake the main yet"? ;)

-K

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 05:30:02AM -0400, Jonathan Bresler via Public-List 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.
> >
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