What Sailing Problems do You Have?

Russell_Sea said:
Hi guys, this is a strange question. I'm an Entrepreneur and sailing nut, out looking for some problems to solve. So if you've got a problem or something that stresses you about sailing, speak now or forever hold your peace. :D

What Sailing Problems do You Have?

If I can't help, who knows, another forum member might point you in the right direction!

Thanks everyone.
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Nowhere available to keep a boat, with swinging moorings, marina berths, dinghy spaces, at a premium in the Solent area.

Can you you invent some more?
 
RichardS said:
OK - here's a real problem.

Is there a way of hauling up a large, heavily-roached catamaran sail, which therefore needs full-length batons, without the baton-ends getting continually caught in the lazy jacks (which requires the sail to be temporarily dropped again) unless the helmsman is 100.00% accurate at holding the bow directly into the wind?


Richard
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Easy!

Drop the lazyjacks & only use them when lowering the sail!
 
Did you know there is no word for Entrepreneur in French according to Bush?

Snopes says it is not true but their attribution to the rebuttal is Alistair Campbell, so we still haven't the faintest idea, although the precedent would seem to suggest Campbell was doing damage limitation. He claims Blair didn't tell this tale to Dame Shirley Williams.
 
Time distortion......

1) When one the boat, time gets badly distorted.
In very little time, three weeks have gone by and I need to go back to work.

2) Money.
I want the boat, and the money I paid for it as I need to invest the
money I used on the boat in our startup company.

3) Weather.
The last day of any cruise, when I need to be back at work the next day,
the wind will be blowing F8 on the nose. Every time.
 
RichardS said:
OK - here's a real problem.

Is there a way of hauling up a large, heavily-roached catamaran sail, which therefore needs full-length batons, without the baton-ends getting continually caught in the lazy jacks (which requires the sail to be temporarily dropped again) unless the helmsman is 100.00% accurate at holding the bow directly into the wind?


Richard
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+1.

You should try raising a square topped mainsail if you want something that is impossibly awkward and magnetically attracted to the lazy jacks.

We have tried numerous measures including over tightening the topping lift to raise the boom high and make the lazy jacks very slack. However, the battens still love to somehow catch the lazy jacks and get caught as the sail goes up.

I think there's just so much extra baggy sail on the roach with the battens heading in all directions until the sails fully set, that it's a bit uncontrollable however close to the wind direction one steers.

There seems no substitute for getting the wife on the coach roof and getting her to guide the sail past the lazy jacks.

If it weren't for the cost then we would probably look seriously at changing the boom and having a boom furler installed. Seems like the only solution but it may also have some other benefits for reefing etc.

So, you ain't alone.

Cheers

G

Ps. Any other suggestions welcome.
 
RichardS said:
OK - here's a real problem.

Is there a way of hauling up a large, heavily-roached catamaran sail, which therefore needs full-length batons, without the baton-ends getting continually caught in the lazy jacks (which requires the sail to be temporarily dropped again) unless the helmsman is 100.00% accurate at holding the bow directly into the wind?


Richard
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You need to modify your lazy jacks...

Something like this:

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That is very unfair on Russell Sea

I am sure he would have suggested that, for a small fee, yet is probably caught in the wasteland that is Mod Approval and can't get back into the thread.
 
Unexpected windshifts. You just get settled down into a beat, get the coffee & biccies out & bu**er it pack em away, struggle with a few ropes & then get the said coffee cup and so on out again. A complete pain and very stressfull. A self tacking coffee cup holder and attached biscuit stand would be nice, I suppose on the same idea of self tacking jibs some Solings & so on have ? There again a bigger boat/ willing servant would probably work too.
 
RichardS said:
OK - here's a real problem.

Is there a way of hauling up a large, heavily-roached catamaran sail, which therefore needs full-length batons, without the baton-ends getting continually caught in the lazy jacks (which requires the sail to be temporarily dropped again) unless the helmsman is 100.00% accurate at holding the bow directly into the wind?

Richard
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I've never had lazy jacks but I have been sailing for a while. This might very easily not work and I would be interested in the purist's responses.

Instead of making the top or head of your lazy jacks off to lacing eyes each side of your mast, how about a long tail like a halliard, coming down to small cleats at the foot of the mast or through blocks, if you wish to tail them back to the cockpit.

They can be tightened up, when you drop the sail and loosened when you want to raise it. The bunch of buggers would need to be tamed at the mast foot but that should be easy enough.

Go on shoot me down.:D
 
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