Hi Robert,
The common causes of furler madness is halyard too tight, halyard too
loose or halyard lead too shallow.
A poor halyard lead is the most cause of furler nonperformance. The
most common solution is to install a fairlead as the halyard comes
out of the box at the masthead.
I had a similar problem to yours and everything went fine since I
added a shackle to the jib tack, which allows the swivel to go a bit
higher and steepen the halyard lead.
You must do something as that is a very bad situation to sail with.
Search out "halyard wrap and other furler horror stories". It simply
will not work as is and you could break it in a blow by forcing things to furl.
Cheers, Russ
Sweet 35 mk-1
east side, Vancouver Island
At 10:08 PM 16/04/2015, you wrote:
I just bent on my main and jib this evening. While furling my jib,
the furler (Harken) seemed to get caught up somehow. It was as if
the furler wanted to unwind a little, if that makes sense.
I know that my jib sheets were not fouled. It felt as if I was
twisting the foil or the forestay.
I managed to furl by repeatedly backing off and gingerly furling again.
Anyway, I'm asking because this happened to me last summer under
sail while I was trying to reef. The situation was as above, but
with the added drama of a wildly flapping jib.
Is there an obvious reason for this?
Robert H.
1989 C&C 30 MKII
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