Head sails/sacrificial strips?

[MINESAPINT2]

Just wondering if anyone has had 2 sacrificial strips fitted to one sail (one each side). My furlers furl clocwise and anti clockwise. When strip no 1 is knackered it could be stripped off and the sail furled the other way. When strip 2 is knackered it could be stripped then the sail could be used without strips alternating furling clockwise/anti clockwise each season until decision made to purchase new.

Mike

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Extra bulk? Two sacrificial strips could make hoisting the sail up the foil tricky.

 

[savageseadog]

Weight and bulk

 

[Yellow Ballad]

I'm sure they say sails should be furled in the direction the wire of the forestay goes.

From the Plastimo 811 fitting instructions.

The genoa should be reefed in the same direction as the strands turn on the forestay

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

I'm sure they say sails should be furled in the direction the wire of the forestay goes.

From the Plastimo 811 fitting instructions.

That 'instruction' never made sense to me because my sail unfurls in the opposite direction to the one in which it was furled while the lay of the forestay remains the same. Doesn't yours...?

 

[Yellow Ballad]

Nope as I haven't got a furler but I've been reading whats involved in fitting one. I assume it's because there's more pressure/resistance furling, especially in a breeze then unfurling, possibly because of people trying to winch the sail in? There must be a reason for them to mention it, I do remember reading about a forestay being "unwound" so to speak not that long back.

This might not be anything to do with a furler but I found it after a quick google.

 

[TQA]

My sacrificial strip is on it's 10th year in the Caribbean. Had it restitched 2 years ago and they said the material was fine just the thread was rotten.

 

[MINESAPINT2]

I have just fitted my spare jib and have discovered the UV strip is on the opposite side to the one I have just removed. I am sure the wire in the luff will be the same lay. I now have a jib furling one way and a stay sail furling the other.

Mike