I'm not coloured

[Gunfleet]

Re: SAR prefers Orange

But you're in the Med. I thought those were standard in the med because furling couldn't be trusted to keep the uv out, even with a sacraficial strip.

 

[Guest]

Re: Why are wooden boatowners more hairy ?

Guess I spoil your theory then.
Tan sails, long keel and their are more hairs on a billiard ball than on my head!

 

[rich]

Re: Long gentle summer,

When wos that then?

rich )

 

[vyv_cox]

Genoa socks v UV strips

I was looking at boats berthed in the outer harbour in Ramsgate last Sunday, wind inside the walls was horrendous and something like F9 or 10 outside. A Dutch(?) boat fitted with one of these socks over the jib was clearly suffering far more windage than those with a UV strip on a rolled jib. It was heeling almost 30 degrees, noticeably more than everything else. Plus the sail, sock and forestay were flapping like crazy. Someone was trying to hold the boat off the downwind pontoon, not very successfully, and all the fenders seemed to have burst.

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Why are wooden boatowners more hairy ?

I'm not particulary hairy!

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Genoa socks v UV strips

If my boat heels more than 10 degrees I know I'm in a serious blow! Mine ties on very tight, with criss cross continuos ties and ends up not a lot thicker than the furled sail, never noticed any real problems in some fairly severe blows. Also she displaces 48 toins fully laden, so I have some very serious sized fenders/boards/warps and lots of them. If she goes "walkabout", she takes the pontoon with her.

 

[ccscott49]

Re: SAR prefers Orange

It's true, but I had it built for anywhere. But the dark blue sacrificial strip with treating on the inside will protect the sail.