Dennis
Do the same on Fireball where we launch Genoas out of a long zip bag
that is secured to the toe rail. We pull the zipper forward to open the
bag and attach the tack and head (led thru the pre-feed and onto the the
twin foil). Pull the zipper back on aft end of bag which is laid between
cabin and shrouds and and attach the sheets with bowlines. Have not
used soft shackles yet and am reluctant to do so. We do a lot of short
tacking to stay out the current so the sails do a lot of thrashing about
every ten to twenty minutes. Last season a J-30 had his main halyard
soft shackle drop the main about 20 minutes into the race. Had a very
difficult time trying to recover the halyard, since the J-30 is a
fractional rig and the s-shackle was in the sheave at the mast head.
Don
Fireball C II
On 3/9/2019 12:48 PM, Dennis C. via CnC-List wrote:
We all have our preferred way of doing things on our boats. :)
As a racer and long time foredeck, I fold all my headsails with the
luff tape on top of itself. If you do what I call a "cruiser fold"
with the folds parallel to the foot and the head ending up in the
middle, you risk ripping the luff tape when you launch the head sail.
The tape will have to come from well aft of the pre-feeder or feeder
and make a sharp bend from horizontal to vertical before feeding up
the track. An overly enthusiastic crewperson jumping the sail might
cause the luff tape to rip off.
The way you do it is to take a "half" fold at the luff only. This
will "cock" the sail slightly. After the half fold, match the folds
with the luff laying on top of itself. The leech will form a sawtooth
as the leech folder works his/her way towards the luff. The head is
then folded to lie next to the tack. When launching, the foredeck can
easily find and hook up the tack and head.
The luff tape should lay well forward in the bow pulpit an be directly
under the pre-feeder/feeder so it hoists straight up without bending.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:09 AM Rick Brass via CnC-List
mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote:
And I fold my hank on sails with a different pattern than the
sails with luff tape. With a luff tape, each fold is parallel to
the foot of the sail and the head of the sail ends up
approximately in the middle of the sail before I start rolling it
up. But when I was learning to sail on Lake Michigan 5 decades ago
with hank on sails, I learned to fold the sail perpendicular to
the luff so all the hanks were exposed. That way you could put the
sail down on the deck, connect the tack, put all the hanks on the
Headstay, and then just unroll the sail and hoist. And that
minimizes the time you need to stand on the pointy end of the boat
for a sail change.
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