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

[Leland]

Mary Lou,

This is probably a stupid question, but can you leave the UPS permanently
rigged and ready to use?  Does it have a UV strip sewn onto it or would you
need a cover?  If you're sailing your Genoa, I assume you would need to furl
it in before tacking.  Come to think of it, how does a cutter-rigged
sailboat tack with two headsails?

Lee


Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> 
> 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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