Do you adjust your furling jib halyard during the season .

[LONG_KEELER]

Just interested.

I'm wondering if mine is worthy of my posh new Spinlock clutch or just tie it off .

When I had hanked jibs, apart from up and down I adjusted them quite a lot with satisfying results.

 

[Refueler]

I will make sure its still taut .. but because a Furling Gib sits in a luff groove - its not quite same as a hanked on sail ... IMHO.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I let mine off when packing the boat up before going home and then retension as required the next time I sail

 

[PetiteFleur]

I don't touch mine all season - once it's set up at the seasons start - not too tight - no need to adjust.

 

[wully1]

I let mine off when packing the boat up before going home and then retention as required the next time I sail

I do the same.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I don't touch mine all season - once it's set up at the seasons start - not too tight - no need to adjust.

Halyard tension is quite important in terms of sail trim - I cant see how leaving it the same all year round can be helpful

It's not particularly good for the sail either

 

[Biggles Wader]

I let mine off when packing the boat up before going home and then retension as required the next time I sail

This-----and I also remove the sail if Im away from the boat for longer than a week.

 

[RJJ]

Also it's recommended (if you adjist the backstay while sailing) to tighten the backstay BEFORE you tension the jib halyard.

 

[RupertW]

Also it's recommended (if you adjist the backstay while sailing) to tighten the backstay BEFORE you tension the jib halyard.

I wonder how many boats actually have a way of adjusting back stay tension easily?

I slacken off the halyard when leaving the boat and play with it a little when the sail is completely out.

 

[Lucky Duck]

This-----and I also remove the sail if Im away from the boat for longer than a week.

I'd love to say I did the same but the vertical battens make it a pain to flake when dropping

That's my excuse anyway

 

[Lucky Duck]

I wonder how many boats actually have a way of adjusting back stay tension easily?

I slacken off the halyard when leaving the boat and play with it a little when the sail is completely out.

Mine has a 48:1 cascade so is easy enough to adjust

Probably less important for masthead rigged boats I guess

 

[RJJ]

Prw

I wonder how many boats actually have a way of adjusting back stay tension easily?

I slacken off the halyard when leaving the boat and play with it a little when the sail is completely out.

I should think most AWBs with the currently fashionable 19/20 rig, in vogue since mid-90s. Ours has a manual hydraulic pump and it makes a big difference.

Aside from that, most designs with any racing pretensions including (to my knowledge) sigma 33, 36, 362 and 38, I think all J-sprit boats.

If you tension the halyard to the point you are comfy with and then tighten the backstay, you are super-stressing the sail. So I was told, and think it makes sense. Also, then releasing the backstay is enough to consider the sail relaxed, but you should ideally remember to do it before you furl.

 

[lw395]

Prw


I should think most AWBs with the currently fashionable 19/20 rig, in vogue since mid-90s. Ours has a manual hydraulic pump and it makes a big difference.

Aside from that, most designs with any racing pretensions including (to my knowledge) sigma 33, 36, 362 and 38, I think all J-sprit boats.

If you tension the halyard to the point you are comfy with and then tighten the backstay, you are super-stressing the sail. So I was told, and think it makes sense. Also, then releasing the backstay is enough to consider the sail relaxed, but you should ideally remember to do it before you furl.

Depends whether halyard tension is much less than forestay tension or not.
If you dump the backstay and apply a lot of halyard tension, all the load is on the jib luff and not on the wire. But generally the forestay takes the main tension, not the jib luff, so cranking on the backstay puts little extra onto the luff rope of the jib. It does however straighten the luff so has a flattening effect in the jib.

 

[Poignard]

If I am leaving the boat for more than a week or so, I take the sails off.

 

[temptress]

Just interested.

I'm wondering if mine is worthy of my posh new Spinlock clutch or just tie it off .

When I had hanked jibs, apart from up and down I adjusted them quite a lot with satisfying results.

i adjust the halyard tension and car position each time i use the sail as the wind strength changes. just because it's a furling sail there is no need to set it badly.

 

[Bobc]

No, never touch it

 

[sailor211]

i adjust the halyard tension and car position each time i use the sail as the wind strength changes. just because it's a furling sail there is no need to set it badly.

+1
Quite often is the answer. I do lots of sail tweaking. Usually improving performance. Things change quite often.

 

[Old Harry]

i adjust the halyard tension and car position each time i use the sail as the wind strength changes. just because it's a furling sail there is no need to set it badly.

me to + backstay

 

[temptress]

yes me too we have a hydrolic backatay

 

[Refueler]

Halyard tension is quite important in terms of sail trim - I cant see how leaving it the same all year round can be helpful

It's not particularly good for the sail either

With a Luff Groove sail on a furling - please explain what advantage there is in different tensions ? Given that most furling gibs are cut to furlers and not same a hanked on ... second you have a clean foil entry to the sail unlike a hanked on ...

I make sure mine is taut all season ... and that's it. If it was my race boat - sold on now - that's different as its hanked on anyway.