Rob -- what kind of furler do you have? That would help us give advice greatly.
My primary thought is: Do you have a "closed loop" furler, where the line running from the furler to the cockpit is a continuous loop, or one that has a huge drum for single line furling? On my boat, we have a Hood Systems closed loop furler. We find it much easier to unfurl if we release the furling line (loop) so there's no tension on the line, then we resecure it to the cleat after unfurling. This year, we had a problem with furling in high winds, and wrapped the halyard, resulting in cutting it off completely. We had to resort to using our spinnaker halyard for the genoa. Since then we've adopted always turning into the wind under motor power to furl the headsail (and the mains'l) to reduce pressure. David Persephone, hull #6480 --- In [email protected], "radkins3885" <robadk...@...> wrote: > > hi all, > > i love this group. so responsive and caring, it's awesome. ok so my furler is resistant to un-fruling, much like i am about getting up in the morning, so i have to go go forward and forcefully finesse the final turn or two before the jib's finally fully un-furled. so fill me in friends. is there a lube-able part to this fairly frank fixture i should fiddle with? frappacino anyone? >
