Forgot to say, if you really think you'll only use the furler 20% or so of outings, then just having a smaller hank-on jib (and jib downhaul) for that 20% of use makes more sense to me. As I see it a furler is a 'permanent' installation. Meaning, it goes on and stays on. If you wanted to switch from furler to hank-on reasonably quickly, I'd say you'd want a separate forestay for each. One with the furler on it, one without. Then just swap out the whole forestay. That will be quicker and easier than removing or reinstalling the furler on a one and only forestay. cheers, John On 1/13/23 07:14, Lawrence Winiarski via montgomery_boats wrote:
I'm seriously preparing to begin to commence to start to get a CDI-FF1 furler for the M15 and I'm looking for comments/criticisms My motivation is I currently have a hank-on-reefable-jib which is actually fine for lake sailing, but in the bigger ocean waves, I'd like to have an easier way to reduce the jib...mainly because the wave action makes me reluctant to spend time away from the tiller
So I don't intend to keep the furler on the boat, but would rather take it off and replace it with the simple hank-on-forestay which I'lluse about 80% of the time and only 20% use the furler when going on bigger water.
So what do you furler guys do when putting the mast back on the trailer? Do you detach it at the mast and slide it up so it doesn't stick out when trailering? What sort of fittings/toggles/turnbuckles do you use?
I'm looking at EP sails and precision sails, but what percentage jib/genoa should I go for? I think stock hank-on was 125%, but with a furler, should I go larger because I can always furl it down?
Any advice appreciated, including questions I don't even know enough to ask.
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