[Rhodes22-list] Single-handed sail video

[Mary Lou Troy]

Seems to be a common thing for passage-makers who make long downwind 
passages. I first read about it in some of the earlier accounts of 
circumnavigators like the Hiscocks, Pardeys and John Caldwell's 
Trekka Around the World.

Googling "twin headsails" turned up this excerpt from a book on sail trim:
http://books.google.com/books?id=pDpaiXWvx6MC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=twin+headsail&source=web&ots=qug7M1-hRu&sig=lYWOSONF85TXgeQVg7-Oie8DAlo&hl=en

We've actually tried with our UPS and the 175 on a July trip back 
from a Baltimore baseball game. I've attached a couple of pictures - 
both from the stern rail - one looking over the bimini forward and 
the other looking up at the masthead. Couldn't get far enough away to 
get a good pic. If I recall correctly, the boat sailed OK rolling no 
more than you would downwind wing on wing and it may have been a bit 
easier to keep the sails full. It did not seem any faster though it 
might have been because there was more sail out. Checking the log, I 
see that we were only making about 3 knots in about 5-6 knots of 
wind. DDW is not a favorite way to sail but it was where we wanted to 
go. We later furled all sails and motored as the winds became intermittent.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD




At 06:27 AM 3/13/2008, you wrote:
>Most higher end furler systems have two tracks for head sails, so you can
>raise the new sail before dropping the old.  He just put a sail on each
>track.
>
>Hank
>
>On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:50 PM, DIANE RUSSELL <mamaruss5 at verizon.net>
>wrote:
>
> > That is another thing I haven't seen, then. How do  twin headsails attach?
> >
> > Diane
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
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> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Single-handed sail video
> >
> >
> > >I don't think that's a spinnaker - just twin headsails poled out. Great
> > >video.
> > >
> > > Mary Lou
> > > 1991 R22 Fretless
> > > Rock Hall, MD
> > >
> > >
> > > At 10:41 PM 3/2/2008, you wrote:
> > >>Check out this neat video. I have never seen a spinnaker like the
> > >>one at the end.
> > >>
> > >>Diane R.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGupz_9mGc
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