[Rhodes22-list] Re move Roller Furling

[Mary Lou Troy]

Depends on your furler.

If you have a General Boats furler - the sail cannot be removed 
without lowering the mast. It's one of the reasons we put the boat on 
the trailer and lowered the mast when Isabel was forecast to wreak havoc.

If you have a CDI it can be done. I understand it involves a 
messenger line attached to the internal halyard. Think that might be 
the red line Elton mentioned. See the manual (it's online at 
http://www.sailcdi.com/ffmain.htm).

Schaefer Snap-furl  - it's what we have now. Has an external halyard. 
It's easy to lower and remove the sail (but there is another exposed 
halyard to slap around). We flake it then fold it  and put it in a 
sail bag. If it is temporary, we store it down below. If it's for the 
season we take it home and store it.

As far as keeping any furler from unravelling in wind. Wrapping the 
sheets around a furled genoa won't keep it from unraveling and 
shredding from the top in a high wind. Ours has come through 60 knot 
wind gusts with no problem but a 60 knot gust is different than 60 
knots sustained which has higher gusts. We may have just been lucky. 
Someone else in the marina had a genoa shredded in the same storm 
with 60 knot gusts. They had a taller mast and winds are generally 
stronger higher up but they were also facing a different direction.

Any time we leave the boat we do make sure the sail is wrapped as 
tightly as possible. We also tie a line around the sail  and through 
the clew so we are not relying on the sheets to keep the sail tight. 
Not sure if that really helps but it allows us to keep the sheets 
slack so birds don't roost on them.

Some where there are pictures of our dry run storm prep.

Here's the start of one thread on storm prep:
http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/2008-September/053687.html

Here's a link to the post that has links (at the end) to a couple of pictures:
http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/2008-September/054961.html

Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 09:12 AM 8/22/2009, you wrote:

>With summer storms heating up I am curious how Rhodies who do not trailer and
>keep their boats in a slip deal with reducing windage.  In particular what
>to do with the rolling genoa.  Most recomendations are to remove it.  I
>assume some prefer to add lines wrapped around the sail to prevent it from
>opening up during high wind conditions.  Is it easy to temporarily remove
>the genoa without taking down the mast?  What is the proceedure?  What do
>you do with the genoa after removing it?  I assume you want to keep it lying
>flat, lash it to the deck?  I think Elton showed me a red line that is part
>of the operation.  I am sure this has been discussed in the past but I
>couldn't find a good thread in the archives.
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