Re: [Cal_Boats] Free flying jib (Reggie)

What do you use for the halyard? Allen On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:35 PM, r good <my… [at] hotmail.com> wrote: > > > have a 3/4 oz 170 cable luff drifter we fly sometimes in downwind runs, > occassionally wing and wing with the 150. > People complain that sailing near us is as bad as sailing in an eclipse. > Reggie > ------------------------------ > To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com > From: al… [at] PaloAltoPhoto.com > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:29:43 -0700 > > Subject: [Cal_Boats] Free flying jib > > > Anyone using a jib without hanks? I use one and fly it from my spinnaker > halyard. Because the block is above and outside the forestay, I have to > tack or gybe it in front of the forestay. It is a huge pain and basically > unacceptable. I can't figure out how to fly it inside the forestay. We > hoist it while the jib is still up and can even use two jibs wing and wing. > I only have one jib halyard and besides a normal in mast halyard cannot fly > a non hanked on sail. In some ways it is similar to a Code-0 spinnaker. I > asked my sailmaker how people use those and was told they use a furler on > the bowsprit. That doesn't help me much. > > It was a particular problem in last nights race where the wind died and got > flukey so we had to constantly tack or gybe to just continue in the same > direction. By the way, while most boats were wondering when the wind would > pick up, we pulled ahead constantly tacking but with a heavy 155. We would > have done even better if we could have kept the light air unhanked sail up. > The race ran out of time so it didn't count. > > Any ideas? > > Allen > > > >