[Rhodes22-list] Oops - here are the pics I described Re: Single-handed sail video

[Alan Robertson]

I guess you'd have to have Main inner mast furling to be able to pull it out half way or less to direct wind into genoa on opposite side, no?? Guess it wouldn't work on our around the boom furling. of the main? Any advice??
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  From: Rick Lange<mailto:SloopBlueHeron at ISP.Com> 
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  Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Oops - here are the pics I described Re: Single-handed sail video





  Hi ML,
  It looks like you were poling the UPS. I pole the genoa
  instead to direct wind into the UPS. 
  If the wind is not coming
  directly from behind, I set the UPS opposite. Like, if the wind is
  blowing more from the port side of the transom, I set the UPS off the
  starboard bow to keep it full.
  That way, I manage to make wind speed
  or hull speed, whichever is less. But only up to about 10 knots of wind. 
  Above that, I use the main to direct wind into genoa and furl the
  UPS.
  Rick
  > I seem to have attached the wrong pics. Here
  are the two I meant to send. 
  > 
  > ML 
  > 
  > At 08:10 AM 3/13/2008, you wrote: 
  >>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 
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