Thursday 10 December 2015

A question inspired by Alpaire

Hello

Congratulations on your crossing and exciting for observers as you raced for 2nd place.

I have a HR48 and will be crossing in Jan 2017.  I very much enjoyed reading the blog of your ARC crossing and  would like to know more about the twin headsail setup.  I had discounted the twin jibs as we have spreaders that allow the boom to go well out,  but your commentary favours twin headsails. What size were your headsails, I believe they were similar sizes?  On the HR48, do you think this setup would work with 140% and 108% in the same groove?
I too have a furling assymetric and think its a wonderful sail.

Thank you
David Bowes

If you have any comment please pass it on via the comments section and we'll make sure David gets it.


1 comment:

  1. Re David Bowes comment. We were using identical HR jibs. It was very flexible. The No 1 could be used as well in lighter winds to weather, with the jib to leeward under the main. Then if you gybe the set up will be wrong. I am not familiar with the clew position on the No 1. If it is a lot lower than on the jib then either the pole will be too high or you will dip the clew in the water occasionally when she rolls. I would not like that. The wear on the jib sheets was usually on the weather sheet. The occasional wave from the stern rotates the boat so that the leach of the weather jib backs for an instant. Then when the sail fills there is a sudden shock load on the leach (really the luff in that set up) and on the sheet. We had the sheets led through the end of the poles. I think a block for the sheets at the end of the poles would have been better. We fixed the poles in position with the uphaul, a forward and a stern line. The idea was that the poles would stay in that position when we rolled the jibs and all we had to do was to ease the sheets. It would be worth adding a few extra clutches for all of those ropes as we doubled up on the winches to belay them. Best Regards Finn

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