From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains'l w/out starting the engine

Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the engine

You dont say whether you have full length battens and a big roach (hey mon)) nor a rigid boom vang so that the topping lift and 'jacks can be eased away but,hey the answer's all there ,just keep playing with the boat and learning,thats the fun part and thats what you are doing.
By the way you can usually get the top 2 battens clear of the lazyjacks just by hoisting at the mast with one hand and flicking the leech with the other,after that with the boat moving along a bit you really do need to be pointing up wind a bit and using the autopilot
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the en

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I DO expect a sensible answer to a sensible question or no response at all. OK?

[/ QUOTE ]Not OK really. If you come on here and ask for help you'll have to make do with whatever you're offered. Serious or in jest.

It's the way it works.
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the engine

Just take your time and start hoisting the main slowly. Yes you'll get it tangled in the lazy jacks if you have them, but you will also start making some way. As the limited amount of sail you have up starts to draw, you will round up a touch, by the time you have got rid of the tangles you should be able to raise a bit more, and so on until it is up. I'd do away with the lazyjacks myself. I find them more trouble that they are worth.
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the en

I've never had anything but god sound advice from this forum, often combined with a little tongue in cheek jest. Please don't be so rude, your not a paying customer you know
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the engine

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Two really S T U P I D answers frtom two really S T U P I D people.

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Stand by for some more with an attitude like that /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the en

Why does your snail have teeth? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the en

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Why does your snail have teeth? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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Because it bites /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the en

Are you replying to me? I think it's Guinevere who is being rude.

.........and please don't bring God into this.
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the engine

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(cut) I think you will find that most people's single-handed insurance requires them to have an operating autopilot fitted whilst single-handed.

Mine does.

Ken

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Is that to ensure that the boat will sail off leaving you in the drink alone to drown - eventually? Which means you will not be making a claim.
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Without an autopilot, the boat should round up so you CAN swim after it & get back on board if you have a boarding ladder & are not too knackered swimming.

I would refuse to accept stupid conditions like that on my policy!
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the en

Yes Guinevere the place never changes always the comedians with the useless statements and you're supposed to roll around in the aisles while they guff and slap each other on their backs
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the engine

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Two really S T U P I D answers frtom two really S T U P I D people.

[/ QUOTE ]And as for that... i'm thoroughly disappointed that anyone bothered to reply after that disgusting display of ungentlemanly conduct.
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the en

Hey Guinevere - you've made a friend /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif (Guff - I haven't heard that since I was at school /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the engine

Oh dear, you need to stand back for a long time and see how this place works.
There is an amazing avalanche of experience here, you just have to wait, even the irreverent replies can be teased into a rainbow of off the wall advice.
Know your boat most stick their arse into wind.
use jib to pull bow into wind
lash jib so it bounces between tacks
with bow pointing approx into wind loosen mainsheet and hoist main.
This assumes safe searoom if not sail off on jib alone as all yachts behave incredibly well on jib alone.
Keith
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the engine

I concur that an autopilot is desirable for single-handing although you can tie the tiller/helm which is quite good enough to get some way on. I've never heard of a requirement to have a working autopilot when single-handing. What happens if it breaks down on passage? I've had insurance with GJW and Pantaenius and neither have required that. I wouldn't accept it simply because it might be used as a reason not to pay out - the more exclusions they have the more likely it is that they never intend to pay out.

Generally (I am not talking about marine in particular) it seems that the insurance industry is moving towards new techniques to avoid paying out including intimidating claimants (I have been on the receiving end).
 
Re: From lying ahull, how do u raise the mains\'l w/out starting the engine

Since no one assumed this so far: unroll the main, point into the wind, adjust the outhaul, unroll the genoa. Or the reverse. Who uses battened mainsails these days?

All firmly tongue in cheek, off course. But not having to deal with lazy jacks is imho well worth the smaller mainsail surface.
 
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