I have a 150 genoa with the lighter UV material on my CDI and I agree with your sailmaker. I wouldn't want anything any heavier out there. It's already difficult in light breezes to keep the sail open without the whisker pole and sunbrella out there on the outer edge would be worse.

  What weight fabric are you getting? My sailmaker built mine out of 6 oz. material because I told him I wanted to sail the San Juans someday. If I had it to do over again, I'ld go lighter, maybe 5 oz.

Larry Yake

M17, #200

 

 

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:52:01 -0400 "Honshells" <chonshell@ia4u.net> writes:
>
> My sailmaker tells me Sunbrella fabric as the UV protection on an
> M17 jib
> would be too heavy:  He suggests a light Dacron-like UV-resistant
> material.
> What do those of you with headsails on a CDI have?
>
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