This is/was a sail used more often in the years before the advance of the roller furling headsail. We need also to consider a hanked on head sail of the correct size for the conditions.
Any decent cruising boat of a size over say 32 feet should have the ability to set a smaller head sail well inside the normal tack position of the genoa, the boat is then called a Cutter.
I mention this as I have just seen a yacht about 43ft sailing out of our bay, its a well designed and locally built one, good for offshore sailing for sure. Its a little breezy out there today, I guess about 20 to 25 knots and two meter swells and rising,white caps on the waves etc.
Telefonica at speed and under a staysail.
The boat leaving our bay had a large roller reef in the genoa, the size of the head sail was down to around one third of its normal 135% size or so but the shape of that sail was really bad.
Setting very full and with a deep pocket due to sail cloth stretching, that boat is not going to perform any place needing to go up wind.
It would be easier just to use an inner forestay and hank on a nice staysail that will sheet flat as required, the question is do they have an inner forestay and do they have the sail to hank on to it?
One Endurance 37 I had was fitted out with two staysails, one was the Peter Ibold design from his standard sail plan, the other was larger and more like a small 110% Genoa, that sail with a full main or just one reef worked the boat across waves really well, plus all the sail effort on the foredeck was kept low down.
Do you!
Roy
Any decent cruising boat of a size over say 32 feet should have the ability to set a smaller head sail well inside the normal tack position of the genoa, the boat is then called a Cutter.
I mention this as I have just seen a yacht about 43ft sailing out of our bay, its a well designed and locally built one, good for offshore sailing for sure. Its a little breezy out there today, I guess about 20 to 25 knots and two meter swells and rising,white caps on the waves etc.
The boat leaving our bay had a large roller reef in the genoa, the size of the head sail was down to around one third of its normal 135% size or so but the shape of that sail was really bad.
Setting very full and with a deep pocket due to sail cloth stretching, that boat is not going to perform any place needing to go up wind.
It would be easier just to use an inner forestay and hank on a nice staysail that will sheet flat as required, the question is do they have an inner forestay and do they have the sail to hank on to it?
One Endurance 37 I had was fitted out with two staysails, one was the Peter Ibold design from his standard sail plan, the other was larger and more like a small 110% Genoa, that sail with a full main or just one reef worked the boat across waves really well, plus all the sail effort on the foredeck was kept low down.
Do you!
Roy
