Jeckells wrap round storm jib. Has anyone any actual experience of this system?

[Windway]

My boat has both the yankee and the staysail on furlers with no where to fit an inner forestay. I was thinking this summer to remove the staysail furler and fit a traditional inner forestay, with a new hank on staysail and hank on storm jib. Meanwhile I have been advised by Jeckells of Wroxham that they offer a storm jib that wraps around the furled staysail and has parell beads that go around the luff of the storm jib and the rolled staysail with the foot tensioned below the roller drum and allows the storm jib to be hoisted over the furled staysail using the spinnaker halyard. If this works it would save a lot of hassle and buying a new staysail. I have searched the web but can find very little about this type of wrap around storm jib apart from one called a gale sail. Jeckells tell me they have a lot of satisfied blue water customers who use this system. I wondered if any of them might be on this forum and could share their experiences of the system with me??

 

[Daydream believer]

A chap called johan hackman regulerly posts on the my hanse forum
He posted an interesting thread with details about how dangerous to operate this type of sail proved to be
I do not have a link but it can be found on the My Hanse forum

 

[prv]

I think there was a review of non-traditional storm jib systems in one of the mags a few years back. This kind of system was included, and they weren't terribly complimentary about it.

(To be fair, they weren't all that impressed with any of them.)

Our new boat came with a storm jib with parrels to go round the rolled genoa. I fitted an inner forestay tang while the mast was down, and will be putting the stay on once more important jobs are done. Shows what I think of the wraparound system

Pete

 

[Plevier]

I'm a bit confused by your description.
I have a Jeckells storm jib that has a wire luff and parrell beads.
It doesn't wrap around.
I know there are wrap around ones - didn't know Jeckells did them - but I don't think they have parrell beads as well.
I'm struggling to see why you would have both.
I've never tried mine in anger BTW it came with the boat! I suspect a wrap around would be almost impossible to rig in a wind.