Moving (storm jib) removable forestay forward for use with blade jib

[dunedin]

Dunedin, when you say it’s a moot point do you mean that a furled headsail can be as efficient to windward in a blow as a hanked on blade jib? By the time a headsail has furled enough to have the same area as a blade jib the centre of effort will be much higher, causing more heeling and leeway, and foam luff or not the shape of sail will have suffered a bit surely?.

As I said in post #12, it is my experience that a good all round sail with foam luff can be more effective than multiple sails, which may be too much hassle to fit / hoist, and conditions change once done so and wish had the bigger sail again. Hence end up sailing with wrong sail for much of the time. Whereas with fuller can adjust size whenever needed.
The clew rises slightly on ours when reefing, but that is exactly what is needed as want near deck scraper in light winds, but a bit of space underneath when reefed to ensure doesn’t trap any waves coming over deck. Area comes off faster higher up so centre of effort is coming downwards.
May depend a bit on boat size and cut of original jib/genoa, but my preference is simplicity plus good quality sails.

 

[RJJ]

I don't think some have thought ahead about rigging detachable stay when the going is rough enough to need a storm jib. It needs rigging in advance as trying to hold a strop in one hand 47ft of 8mm swinging wire (in our case) in the other on a moving wet deck, then trying to get the pin in the highfield lever is almost impossible single handed. I gave up one time and just left a bit of the genoa unrolled instead.

You wouldn't do it that way, you'd use a strop or improvised handy-billy (pole downhaul? Mine goes to the same foredeck fitting as the removable inner forestay) to pull the rig roughly into place then fit your lever or bottlescrew with both hands.

 

[Graham376]

You wouldn't do it that way, you'd use a strop or improvised handy-billy (pole downhaul? Mine goes to the same foredeck fitting as the removable inner forestay) to pull the rig roughly into place then fit your lever or bottlescrew with both hands.

Yes, easy with hindsight, I have a spare kicker tackle which does the job now but, it's the usual case of learning on the job as I hadn't given it much thought beforehand.

 

[Iliade]

A multi-part downhaul tackle with dyneema line would solve the problem and you could just leave the Highfield done up during the change over. Easy to handle and quick to tension, but probably considerably more expensive though.