Thank You Robbin. Although the M- 15 is a small boat,I am invariably alone and therefore wish to keep safe and lighten the load of a solo sailor.Cheers RTH. -----Original Message----- From: Robbin Roddewig Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 9:16 PM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Furling Foresail Hi Robert, good for you for sailing about at 80+! I moved to a CDI roller furler this season on my M-23 specifically so my wife (and I) would not experience the terror of me going forward is big seas to change jibs down or do work dousing the sail. There are other good furlers but I am very pleased with the CDI (it is the only one that Bacon Sails in Annapolis carried, so I went with it). One of the things I love about it is is how easy and quick it is to get going out of the dock and to douse the jib coming back into port. I will not go back to hank ons. All the best in your consideration of sailing from the cockpit. I recommend it! Robbin On 9/24/2013 10:25 PM, Robert Hall wrote:
Hello All, Am now well past the 80 year mark but intend to keep sailing my beloved M-15. To do so in safety I would like to install a furler which would carry a genoa,allowing me to shorten sail as the weather dictates while still maintaining proper sail shape. Do any of you have experience with a furler that meets my requirements? How large a genoa can I expect to carry.? On some boats like the Siren, one will find a swivel and drum furler but those arrangements don’t allow one to lessen the sail area while maintaining an aerodynamic shape. Any advice or pictures would be appreciated. At present am using a 128% hank on jib with a downhaul which of course requires me to go forward to change sails. I may be old ,but not (or no longer) stupid.Thank You. RTH.