Furler sag on an M

[Jack Sparrow]

Last weekend we went sailing on a 40 foot cat factional rig, no back stay and roller furler. In a 20 knot wind there was no sag in the forestay when loaded, the furler was fitted with a 1 inch aluminium tube that ran from top to bottom it had a slot cut in it that the jib luff fitted in, has anyboby seen this before or fitted it to a M

Jack Sparrow

[NiceAft]

Jack,

Can you find out who manufactured it so some research can be done Google is a wonderful thing

Ray

[MrBarry]

Do you mean like the plastimo or Profurl ones?

I'll try to dig up a photo of the section.

Manual here:

http://www.plastimo.com/pdf/S-Series(english).pdf

http://www.profurl.com/uk/produits/basic.htm

profurl
http://www.whitworths.com.au/main_itemd ... lutePage=1

Plastimo
http://www.whitworths.com.au/main_itemd ... lutePage=1


James

[Bawgy]

SOunds like a harken foil rig

[Duane Dunn, Allegro]

To my knowledge this is how all furlers are except the CDI. That's the whole point of the CDI flexible furler product, it bends. The rigid aluminum ones are no good on a trailerable boat. In no time you will have bent it when it is in the down position. The flexible plastic furler is the only one that can take the abuse it will get during mast raising / lowering and trailering. The price you pay for this is it is flexible in the up position as well.

If you never lower your mast and want the stiffer foil then you shouldn't have bought the CDI unit you should have bought one of the dozens of other choices that use a stiff aluminum foil.

[Frank C]

In addition to CDI, several MFGs offer flex-foils. I like Schaefer's SnapFurl, and I think Hood's SeaFlex(brand?) is plastic too. The remaining difference from them to CDI is that they use the normal jib halyard to a top-swivel, which is more costly than the CDI design approach.

Duane's right, you were on a non-trailerable with a solid foil. Even those will say though, if the forestay isn't tight enough. I think we Mac'rs have some other rig issues to address ... not sure what, though???

/s/ "still clueless"

[MacShales]

Greetings from the Okanagan. I have a Harken 00AL with a North Sails 130 Genny on it and it's a foil type. I'm lucky, in that I have a 1/2 mile drive to my boat launch and no overhead wires. The extrusions seams strong enough as I trailer it down in the upgright position. I have to drop about 400 ft in elevation in about 1/2 a mile to get to the launch. The Harken folks gave me all the hints I needed to mount it, particularly the length to cut to etc. Dave at North Sails in Vancouver, set up the sail attachment, nothing special. I works very well and I don't have the same issues with the CDI attachment point down below, at the forestay adjuster. I don't have the flex that some of my buddies have with their CDI's and I know one fellow is seriously looking at my setup, because of this issue. So give Harken a try, I'm sure happy with it.

Regards, Brian

Oh, I have set up 2 Harken cabbo 40 fiddle sets 4:1, running back-stays for support.
Forgot to mention that.