lazyjacks

[Guest]

I'm about to add lazyjacks to my boat - any idea how they work with battens that are not full lenght? I presume the full length battens make it easier to control the sail but that the system should still work with short ones.

 

[Guest]

With short battons you must keep dead to windward otherwise the outer end of the top batton catches on the lazyjack. Much better with a full length top batton. They will still work but not nearly as good as with full battons. I have not fitted them myself although I have all the bits.

 

[Guest]

I had them on Fare Well. Worked OK (I like lots of string to play with, that's why we have sailing boats), but Iain (above) is quite right, often the battens do catch on one or other of the jacks, (we had four) especially when hoisting.

It teaches you patience.

 

[Guest]

Lazyjacks are great but it may be worth considering a stack pack system. You may find that you have to alter your sail cover and it may well be past its sell by date anyway. You will have to drill fittings into you boom. If you go for a stackpack it will normally come with all the fittings and lines and the price is not geneally as much as you may think. Some say the stack pack cover adds up to half a knot explained in an old PBO. The stack pack makes single handed dropping and stowing the main even on a larger yacht an easy task.

 

[Guest]

I'm not familiar with the stackpack system. The boat I have is a Beneteau 40.7 which I will be using short handed as well as racing. The idea of the lazyjacks was that I could remove them (tie them forward at the mast) when racing and yet have them available when short handed. From what you are saying I think the stackpack system may be more that I really need.

thanks

 

[Guest]

thanks for the info. The top batten is almost full lenght so it may be ok.

 

[Guest]

No one seems to have mentioned 'lazybags' I have these on my Oyster 39 ketch, and they are great for short hading. If you have not seen them, they are triangular flaps fixed to the boom, and the lazy jacks are fastened to them. They also double as sail covers. They might lose some ultimate effeciency, but they always give a handsome and quick stow, allow slab reefing, and are much cheaper than inmast furling. Well worth looking at. DD

 

[Guest]

Re: lazyjacks & berks

Why use l.j's when hoisting - or was that just poor English? I've rigged mine so's I can furl 'em. Thru a pulley on the mast and down to a couple of jammers. You release from jammers - pull 'em down and fwd under the boom and latch them around reefing hooks - finally tighten and jam. This way they don't thrash the daylight out of your sails. If you can't visualise the system - ask nicely and I'll draw you a pic.

 

[Guest]

Re: lazyjacks & berks

Ron, That's exactly the system I've got on mind. I purchased a couple of pulley's for the mast (just below the second spreaders), got two jammers,one for either side that I've installed at the base of the mast. That way I can stow the lazyjacks when I don't neet them.

 

[Tam_Hazan]

Not actually about lazyjacks, but very interested in Oyster 39!
We are in the process of purchasing an Oyster 39, and would like to get as information from a fellow owner as possible:
Sailing characteristics, good features, bad points, improvements, anything really before we spend a tidy sum of money on what seems to be our dream boat!
Hope you can spare the time to reply.
Tam & Kay Hazan

 

[steve]

I have mine run back to the cockpit, along with the rest of the running rigging. In this way you can slack off the lee lazyjacks to let the battens pass without catching and reduce chafe under way. Another solution, mentioned on this board, is to attach the lazyjacks to the spreaders about a third of the way out from the mast, instead of to the mast itself. This is the next modification I'm planning. Be very careful as to where you attach them to the boom--this is critical to prevent battens catching and allow for a good stow.

 

[nac]

Re: lazyjacks & berks

I just read your item on lazyjacks, as I was thinking of fitting them I would be very interested in seeing your drawing. maybe you could email it to me.

my address is nac@eircom.net
nac.