Furling not Reefing

[lustyd]

Thanks all, makes a bit more sense now, sorry for hijacking the thread

 

[snowleopard]

A good example of furling gears was seen on the America's cup cats. The Gennaker was furled then lowered for the windward legs.

 

[bluemoongaffer]

Wykeham Martin Available at Classic Marine (probably elsewhere as well) : http://www.classicmarine.co.uk/boat...&strPageHistory=search&numSearchStartRecord=1

Regards

Paul

Works well but you need to keep tension on the furling line when you let out the sail and it's not designed for very high luff tension.

 

[Lakesailor]

Interesting. The Barton system is better with a high luff tension. I used a rigging screw at the drum end to get a bit more tension into it. It is suggested you can use the system instead of a forestay, but that seems a bit hopeful unless you have wire halyards.
The Wykeham Martin is also more expensive.

You can see me furling the headsail at 3 minutes 50 seconds in this vid. (If you can be arsed) Just click on the bottom bar to move to that point.

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[bluemoongaffer]

I use a 6 to 1 system on the luff of the jib on my Wykeham Martin - but I don't really try to tighten too much. It is more difficult to furl when I tension it up and I guess the bearings (if any) are not made for modern day rigs.

 

[prv]

I guess the bearings (if any) are not made for modern day rigs.

Apparently they are standard bicycle wheel bearings. Not that I've ever taken mine apart to look.

Pete

 

[Fantasie 19]

Interesting. The Barton system is better with a high luff tension. I used a rigging screw at the drum end to get a bit more tension into it. It is suggested you can use the system instead of a forestay, but that seems a bit hopeful unless you have wire halyards.
The Wykeham Martin is also more expensive.

You can see me furling the headsail at 3 minutes 50 seconds in this vid. (If you can be arsed) Just click on the bottom bar to move to that point.

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Snappy manoeuvring... well done, you almost missed it....

 

[ProDave]

Interesting. The Barton system is better with a high luff tension. I used a rigging screw at the drum end to get a bit more tension into it.

I second that.

The first couple of trips out after fitting my Barton furler, the jub luff was too slack and the jib bellowed out touching the forestay making it hard to furl.

I didn't think of fitting a bottlescrew, instead I slackened my backstay a bit, tensioned the jib halyard for all I was worth, then re tightened the backstay. Same effect. Now the jib is nice and tight it works just fine.

The other bit of fine tuning needed was to get the first stanchion roller for the furling line in just the right place. Initially it was too high so it all wound on the drum right at one edge and jammed. Now that's in the right place it evenly fills the drum.

I certainly wouldn't want to go back to a hanked on foresale, far more civilised do do everything from the cockpit.