Yes…..the head of that jib topped out about 2 to 4 feet below masthead……….the clew pretty low to the deck but not as far aft as the mast…..maybe a foot or two forward of the mast and just above the deck. Certainly a different shaped jib than my Ullman 60% storm jib, which is a tall thin blade….or my 110% which goes all the way to the masthead and then some. If not for some substantial mast rake, the luff on the 110% will not tension properly. Moral to the story is the older boats have different specs than the newer ones do. That plus the Reggie Armstrong working jib and main must have been perfectly matched to each other. Once the wind got up to 10 knots plus, that sail combo went to weather far better than the main and 110% I had made by Kern. Or the same main and 150% Genoa made by EP. Far better. BTW, as I recall, the boat also came to me with a McKibbin 155% mylar genny……..a great sail until it delaminated. But it too, like the working jib, was a lower aspect sail than most sails built today. But they really worked on this boat. BTW, I still have the RA sails……blown out as they are. Kept them for their DNA in hopes someday they could be cloned.
On Mar 19, 2018, at 10:29 AM, Dave Scobie <scoobscobie@gmail.com> wrote:
jib……about an 80%
seems to be small for the M17 working jib ... a sail that size would be in the 'large storm jib' size. the usual working jib for the M17 is about 110%.
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:14 AM, Howard Audsley <haudsley@tranquility.net> wrote:
My M17 #278 also came to me with a Reggie Armstrong main and matching jib……about an 80% or so. The two of them combined had some magic voodoo that I’ve never been able to duplicate. Like getting her up on plane doing 6 knots plus going to weather in enough wind to have some nice whitecaps…….and heeled over no more than 15 to 20 degrees or so. Magic stuff. Similar performance with the same blown out main with 2 reefs and a 60% storm jib in wind blowing 25 knots plus. Just dancing along.
Reggie had his personal demons, but he knew how to build a sail. Or at least he got it right with the one he built for my boat.