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Interim wrote:I have a new sail that has a boltrope, so the discussion helped me. In fact, this new bolt rope is about 5/8 of the old one, and found its way out of the slot a couple times during hoisting. Winds were 14mph, and it never looked like it would pull out, so I guess it will work. But this may explain in part why they come down so easily.
TIM WEBB wrote:I've sailed it (unreefed) into the 20's (gusts, not steady).
And I mean knots, not mph
Interim wrote:TIM WEBB wrote:I've sailed it (unreefed) into the 20's (gusts, not steady).
And I mean knots, not mph
Interim wrote:GreenLake wrote:I've sailed it (unreefed) into the 20's (gusts, not steady).
And I mean knots, not mph
I can take gusts in the 20smph, but there is a gap in seamanship between me and a 20sknt gust
ChrisB wrote:Seems everyone on the forum is a fan of the reefing hook approach except me. I tried it and can't say I liked it much. I found that the hook snagged virtually everything in the same zip code; jib sheets, UPS sheets, halyards, not to mention ME! I abandoned the hook in favor of the single line slab reef. Much happier with this approach. It starts at the aft end of the boom and terminates at a cleat on the forward end of the boom. Ease mainsheet, ease halyard, pull reef line to bring reef cringles down to the boom, tension halyard, tighten mainsheet. Most of the time I don't even bother with the cringles in the belly of the sail.
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