The most unused bit of kit

[Jimmy20V]

Stuck record...

"Most AWB boats that you see around on the seas today have but 2 sails: a furling genoa and a non-reefing main: and neither are used much"

Oh please! Isn't life too short for all of this? I think CO26's are lovely boats, and I think the same of alot of AWB's

Isn't the important thing that people are out on the water, enjoying themselves?

Live and let live.

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[Peppermint]

Re: Thats why I asked

I've see dozens of storm jibs on well used boats and most of them are pristine. Never been out of the locker usually in the forecabin.

As someone mentioned the only time I was crying out for one, truely biblical weather with everything but tne locusts, headsail blown to bits, the inventory lied and no sail was found. mea culpa.

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[doris]

Wots an AWB boat please??

I apologise for being thick but all you chaps keep referring to them.

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[duncan]

Re: Wots an AWB boat please??

average white boat - implication being GRP, white hull/deck, sloop rig (and proabably a Yanmar or Volvo engine!)

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[qsiv]

I dont really agree! I can think of no circumstance when I would set off on a cross channel trip in conditions where I would even REMOTELY need an ORC storm jib, I'd have had a family mutiny 20 knots below that. You'd have to be willfull or careless to be 'caught out' on what is for most people a trip of less than 12 hours.

It obviously depends on your sailing - but for most family toting recreational sailors I cant see the relevance if the logest likely passage is only 12 hours or so. I'd also venture to suggest that they are even less use in boats with reefing mains, as that will probably be useless by the time the wind is fresh enough!

Oh - and I do have a 'pukka' ORC certified storm jib, it comes out periodically to satisfy measurers and scrutineers, and then goes back to its job of keeping the useful sails out of the bilges in the sail locker!

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