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

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Lee.
Answers below:

>can you leave the UPS permanently
>rigged and ready to use?

No. It doesn't furl tightly like the genoa. It is tighter to about 
midway up and then has a looser furl that the wind could easily 
catch. It needs to come down before you leave the boat.

>Does it have a UV strip sewn onto it or would you
>need a cover?

UV strip would defeat the purpose of a sail that fills easily in 
light air. The UPA is spinnaker cloth. One of the joys of using it is 
that it is so light.

>  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?

Again we don't leave it up. Dunno about cutters.

ML



>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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