[Rhodes22-list] Jib Furler

[Mary Lou Troy]

Pictures may be needed. I've never seen a GB furler with an enclosed 
drum. Are you sure that you don't have some other brand of furler? If 
your furler is more like a CDI, the CDI manual may be of 
help:  http://www.sailcdi.com/sailpdf/FF1%20manual%207_06.pdf

Is your furling line detached? If so, I would wind the sail manually 
as tightly as I could by spinning the furling unit and then re-attach 
the furling line, threading it around with several extra wraps. Make 
sure that the wraps are in the right direction so that when you pull 
the sail out, you get more wraps not fewer. When you furl the sail, 
the furler line should be almost all of the way out but there should 
still be a wrap or two on the drum. If you can't get to the place you 
attach the line because of the drum enclosure, you may have to detach 
the forestay and take the drum apart. If your Rhodes is standard with 
the fore and aft lower stays you can easily detach the forestay if 
you have to go that route.

I hope that if someone else has a GB furler that fits your 
description, they will chime in here with facts as opposed to my 
speculation about the situation.

Best of luck,
Mary Lou


At 09:08 PM 7/6/2010, you wrote:
>hole is on top of the bottom disk--how do I manually wind up the line.  If I
>wind up the sail, the furler does not take in the line.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
>To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7:40 PM
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Jib Furler
>
>
> > John, my memory of the GB furler is that there is a hole in the
> > bottom disk of the furler. The line is threaded through that hole and
> > secured with a figure 8 knot. Once it is attached you can just
> > manually wind up the line and furl the sail. Or you could wind up the
> > sail by hand, then attach the line. There may some variation in this
> > from boat to boat.
> >
> > Mary Lou
> > 1991 R22 Fretless
> > (recycled 1998)
> > Rock Hall, MD
> >
> > At 07:18 PM 7/6/2010, you wrote:
> >>GB furler--1990 Rhodes
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
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> >>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7:01 AM
> >>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Jib Furler
> >>
> >>
> >> > Good question. If it's the GB furler it's a no brainer....really.
> >> > Anything
> >> > else is unit specific.
> >> >
> >> > Rummy
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > In a message dated 7/6/2010 6:30:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> >> > staum at earthlink.net writes:
> >> >
> >> > What  furler do you have?
> >> >
> >> > Sent from my iPhone
> >> >
> >> > On Jul 5, 2010, at 8:57  PM, John <johnrowland at optonline.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Finally got the  boat into the water this past week-end.  Need some
> >> >> advice  tho.  Going into my slip the jib let loose.  Got really windy
> >> >> all of a sudden.  The line to furl the jib pulled out.  How  do I get
> >> >> that line back into the furler in order to furl the  jib?
> >> >>
> >> >> Any advice would be extremely  appreciated.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>
> >> >> John
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