[Rhodes22-list] UPS Sail Again

[FredkLange at aol.com]

Mark,

I think I get it now.  The "halyard restrainer" is used to raise and lower 
the spinnaker and it is that roundish thing on front of the mast 10" below the 
top that I thought was a steaming light.

Fred

In a message dated 2/10/04 11:10:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, mark at kaynor.org 
writes:

> Fred,
> 
> That block that's on the bail at the masthead was used with our asymmetric
> spinnaker (www.kaynor.org/raven). We sold that sail to a friend after we
> bought the UPS and haven't had a second thought about it - we like the UPS a
> lot more than the asymmetric spinnaker. I didn't remove the block last year
> because I thought I might eventually come up with a use for it and it wasn't
> doing any harm. I may go ahead and remove it before we launch this spring,
> tho.
> 
> The UPS halyard tensions the rope luff between the halyard restrainer and
> the padeye on the deck - much like a staysail. You can't tack the Genoa with
> the UPS raised w/o furling/unfurling the Genoa during the tack. And we
> either tack the UPS or do a quick furl/unfurl when we gybe.
> 
> We've found that we can furl the UPS with the Genoa out, but can't furl the
> Genoa with the UPS out unless we're running wing-on-wing. If they're on the
> same side of the boat the belly of the UPS gets caught in the Genoa as it
> rolls up.
> 
> When we're going from the Genoa to the UPS, we furl the Genoa before
> unfurling the UPS. When we're going from the UPS to the Genoa, however, we
> unfurl the Genoa first, then furl and drop the UPS so we're ready for the
> next tack.
> 
> Mark
> 
>