Cariadco
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Anyone seen the Jib set up like this? or maybe even used it in this config?
Photo is from last year's Sidney-Hobart, in very light airs.
Photo is from last year's Sidney-Hobart, in very light airs.
Light Air's Jib Config???
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dunedin
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Suspect they must have blown all their spinnakers / asymmetrics and resorted to flying the only thing left intact!
That’s a heavyweight battened jib (albeit very high clewed, which is unusual with a battened sail), presumably intended to be set on the main forestay. Trying to “make a silk purse of of a sows ear” by flying higher on the masthead spinnaker halyard.
Not sure if legal, but certainly not optimal.
PS Nobody at Apple can be a sailor - IOS spellchecker wrongly undoes correctly spelt nautical words, annoying!
That’s a heavyweight battened jib (albeit very high clewed, which is unusual with a battened sail), presumably intended to be set on the main forestay. Trying to “make a silk purse of of a sows ear” by flying higher on the masthead spinnaker halyard.
Not sure if legal, but certainly not optimal.
PS Nobody at Apple can be a sailor - IOS spellchecker wrongly undoes correctly spelt nautical words, annoying!
flaming
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Don't think so...
Pretty sure what you are looking at there is a flying jib. THE FLYING JIB, ANOTHER REASON TO CONVERT TO A SPRIT — UK Sailmakers
Given the number of crew on the foredeck I suspect they were in the middle of a change of (normal) jib.
RJJ
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It's not unreasonable to think it would be faster, in very light sloppy conditions, than a code zero or similar. And hoisting it up 4 feet or so can make a significant difference to the wind strength it sits in.
flaming
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Not really the point...
If you read the article I linked to you'll see that the sail in question is a Jib Top so will rate as a jib which is why it looks small when set on the end of the pole, and the point of that sail is that it is used at angles that are too tight for a code 0. Look at where their main is...
JIb Tops are nothing new, and neither are jib tops set on their own furlers separate from the forestay. What is fairly new is tacking it to the end of the pole on a bowsprit boat. Setting it from the end of the pole allows another jib to be set inside it, and I think you can see that the crew are in the act of doing that.
