What is a roller furling mainsail?
What is a roller furling mainsail?
What is an in-mast furling mainsail? Unlike a traditional mainsail that is hoisted and doused vertically with a halyard, an in-mast furling mainsail wraps around a tube inside a hollow mast. It is unfurled by an outhaul line and furled back in with a line labelled as the “inhaul.”
What is a Yankee sail?
The Yankee is a high clew Genoa flown off the forward forestay and is a very common sail on offshore yachts. It also allows ocean waves to wash across the deck of the yacht without causing extra stress and shock loads on the sail.
Can you reef a roller furling jib?
With a furler, the genoa can be reefed or stowed from the safety of the cockpit without the physical effort of dragging sails onto the foredeck, so a small crew can sail a large boat, or a moderate size boat can be single- handed.
How does a roller furling system work?
In this roller furling system, the jib is hoisted in a groove, but when not in use is furled around the headstay, rather than lowered. To furl the sail you simply pull on a line that leads from a drum at the base of the jib aft to a winch near the cockpit, which rotates the whole headstay, rolling up the jib.
What is a lazy jack system for sailing?
Lazy jacks are networks of lines that are rigged along each side of the mainsail from multiple points on the boom or a stack pack to a point on the mast just above the spreaders, at about 60\% the mast’s height. Their purpose is to hold the mainsail on top of the boom when it is lowered.
What is a screecher sail?
A screecher is a sail that combines the features of a spinnaker and a reacher. Its similarity with a spinnaker is that it is not attached to a stay along its luff, and typically has a slightly larger curvature than a genoa. Tacking with a screecher may require furling and re-setting.
What is a 150\% jib?
Technically a foresail that does not overlap the mast is considered a jib, but an overlapping sail is a Genoa. Very likely you will hear the terms used interchangeably. In an effort to standardize which size sail belongs in which category, we have broken down each as follows: #1 Genoa is 150\% #2 Genoa is 135\%
Can you reef a self tacking jib?
Reefing of the self-tacking jib is, indeed, not the best idea. When partly furled, the foot gets shorter but you can’t adjust the sheet point forward, meaning more vertical loads on the foot.
Do you have to turn into the wind to reef?
When to reef? Most boats are designed to require the first reef in around 18 knots apparent wind when sailing to windward. Some lighter, more coastal-orientated boats may struggle in 15 knots while heavier offshore designs will still be happy at 20 knots or more.