[Rhodes22-list] UPS Re: Boom Vang, UPS, Whisker Pole

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Caesar,
There's some info on the UPS at http://www.rhodes22.org/upssail/index.html
along with some pictures of Tom Deliberto's installation. He was the UPS
pioneer.

The UPS attaches to a padeye behind the genoa furler. It (the UPS) has it's
own mini-furler. It is hoisted by a spare halyard and there is a mini-swivel
at the top of the sail. We have two sheaves at our masthead. At the time we
got the UPS one was for the topping lift and we used the other for the UPS
halyard. We've since swapped our old GB jib furler for a Schaeffer which
also requires a halyard so we now have the two halyards in the masthead
sheaves and the topping lift has been relegated to a block clipped to the
masthead. There's small eye acting as a halyard restrainer just below our
masthead.

 

I've attached a picture of the padeye on Raven and the halyard restrainer as
we were installing it on our mast. There's a pic of the upper swivel on the
site mentioned above (pic #1)

 

This setup works for the UPS because it has the furler and a high-tech line
sewn into the luff (it furls around the line). I'm no expert on spinnakers
but I know they attach differently and there are differences between
different types of spinnakers. The neat thing about the UPS is that you can
also use it upwind (at least above a beam reach) which you can't do with a
spinnaker.

 

Hope this helps a bit.

Mary Lou Troy 

1991 R22 Fretless

Rock Hall, MD





At 09:57 PM 9/12/2008, you wrote:



Hi Leland,
 
I too have  been thinking about some kind of light air sail, and would like
to learn about the rigging necessary for flying a UPS, or some other
asymmetrical sail.
 
To be specific, does anyone have pictures of their rigging specific to
flying a UPS?  How was your rigging installed, and what's involved?  
 .....   Mary Lou can you help us out?  Can your attachment points on the
bow and at the mast-head be used for flying other light air sails?



 

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