Number 1 Jib and Solent Blade

[PIGLETSDREAM]

Boat came with both and a 140% furling genoa. 140% genoa getting a little baggy and thought about using the above, yet to unfold them out of there bags.

Question, which is the bigger and or more useful?

 

[michael_w]

#1 usually 150% of J (J = base of foretriangle, Measured at right angles from the luff to the clew, not along the foot. Length Perpendicular)

#3 aka "Le Solent" usually a full hoist jib cut to 100% of J.

Neither will work in your furler. The #1 will end up far too baggy when furled, it is probably not strong enough too.The #3 is usually battened.

 

[ebbtide]

Re: Number 1 Jib & Solent Blade

I really can't make constructive comment if you're too lazy to get 'em out of the bags and measure!!

For a start, don't believe the labels. A Blade or 'Solent jib' is the name for a No 3 with a (nearly) full length luff and short foot, filling the fore triangle and usually needing a second pair of tracks inside the rig to sheet properly.

Anything called Jib can be . . . anything.

But with a furler you can't use those two sails and are committed to one headsail plus a storm jib for emergencies - so better get one and sort out how to hoist and sheet it then.

While you're at it, best find out how to roll up a furler when the drum jams . . .

 

[flaming]

Re: Number 1 Jib & Solent Blade

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But with a furler you can't use those two sails and are committed to one headsail plus a storm jib for emergencies - so better get one and sort out how to hoist and sheet it then.


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Er, why?

Just because you can roll it doesn't mean you have to!

Dropping and changing is always an option. And if you have a decent blade 3, it's probably one of the most useful sails you can have. If you're faced with a 20 mile beat and a forecast of 5s and 6s, why not swap your genoa for a 3 before you leave? A properly cut 3 will always outperform a part rolled genoa.

 

[shmoo]

Re: Number 1 Jib & Solent Blade

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Dropping and changing is always an option.


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We change between a small jib and Genoa, which we regard as a roller furling sail rather than a roller reefing sail..

In fact I think there is an argument for putting UV strip on the small jib and leaving that on routinely. That means that you change up sails if you go out and the wind is too light, which is much easier than changing down when if it is too strong.

 

[PIGLETSDREAM]

Re: Number 1 Jib & Solent Blade

Thats cos they are in the loft and neatly folded and I don't have anywhere at home to lay them out. My furler has two slots and I have many times put two sails on the furler for long down wind passages. and furled them away. What I was hoping to learn is that the sail marked Solent Blade is either smaller or larger than the sail marked Number 1 Jib, both sails appearing to be almost new. Any way thanks for your answers.

 

[robmurray]

Re: Number 1 Jib & Solent Blade

As above the Solent blade should be the smaller of the two sails. Another option which we use is to have our big genoa furled for use in light airs and then we have a removeable inner forestay to set a No3 in heavier weather, especially to windward. In theory this gives you some windage when using the No3 with furled genoa but I cant tell difference in performance. Storm jib uses same stay. In my view you should never partly furl a sail.