WHat size jib (s) should I buy?

I guess I have been lucky, foam luff, tracks forward, sheets re positioned inside and good sail shape on a Moody 336 (lucas sails - no foam luff) and Moody 38 (Hood). Pity about Hood's in Lymington they were very helpful.
 
Hi Nick,

I gather you intend to set it separately from the furled Genoa.
I cast envious looks at friends that set a smaller genoa for breezy conditions but we have a number of things that make it difficult - How to get a properly tight inner forestay and where to put the extra sail(s) and the sheer weight of the sails.

Unless you are much stronger than me, humping the foresails about isn't much fun even in a marina, so the prospect of doing that when the weather isn't great would make it even harder.

I do have a decent set up for a storm jib involving the spare halyard but wouldn't expect to go to windward too well as the luff wouldn't be tight.

If I were to do a "proper job", I'd have an inner forestay, running back stays and a proper jib made for it.

In the meantime, I have Saunders sails, which although getting a bit tired now (after 8 years) still set remarkably well and reef adequately when needed. I hope to change them next winter and will go back to them without any hesitation.

Cheers
 
I am aiming to do a proper job a temporary inner forestay (not making it a slutter rig), and to have a jib made for it ... hence the question. I know Pete Sanders will give me loads of advice, but just wanted to start the conversation from a position of at least some understanding of what I require /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

see my previous answer to Skysail ..... much easier to rig it before setting off then take it down in light winds, rather than the other way round.

I struggle to lug 59 sq.m of genoa around, but hope to get something half the size or less.

A shame Tome is no longer with us, he used to swear by his set up.
 
I had exactly the same issue as you and have a real dislike to the pregnant rhinoceros shape and a hooked leech created by an overtight luff line. I had a plate fixed just infront of the anchor locker, bolted to a bulkhead - for an inner forestay.

I use a spitfire type jib, but with the clew a little lower and the sail a little bigger than normal for a spitfire, for going to windward winds in excess of 17 - 20 kts true. The sail is stored furled on a facnor system - not a conventional furler in that it cannot be used to adjust sail size - but it allows the sail to be easily hoisted and dropped.

Luf is tensioned using a dynema 2:1 halyard from near the to of the mast as I have a fractional rig - another advantage of spitfire type sail - and no running backstay.

The system works really well.
 
Thats fair enough, rigging the sail before you go is the best way.

Another consideration - will a No 4 genoa still sheet outside the shrouds? Our Solent jib had inner tracks.
 
My number 4 sheeted between the lowers and the cap shrouds on the 44. Don't think anything will sheet inside the lowers without chafing on anything than hard on the wind.

As you indicated, the heavy sail was always setup whilst in harbour. Worked for 3 years and never got caught out.
 
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