Larry wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote in
:

He says I'm chicken.

Nothing is "chicken" about being smart.

Now he's talking about singlehanding, and that's crazy.

His IS crazy....you may quote me.

We do have all roller furling so that we can handle all the sails from
the cockpit and don't need to go on deck except to anchor or come in
to a dock.

I never works that way....and shouldn't be PLANNED to work that way.
Lionheart's roller furling takes place at the bottom of the mast, not aft

The actual roller part of the main (it is behind the mast furling) is
right in front of the companionway to the forward cabin, so it is not
only in view, but Bob can reach the reel that winds up the line from
the cockpit. So it is almost in the cockpit.

Now the staysail and jib both have lines led back to the cockpit and
are farther forward.

in the cockpit. I don't think I'd want to do it any other way because
from the cockpit you can't see it's all going wrong before the damned
thing is jammed, which I can see from right under the roller before it
becomes a problem and can roll it back out to clear it.

Your roller must be placed differently than ours. We can see.

Planning on worst case scenario, you must be setup to go forward in heavy
weather to clear the inevitable crash of these systems.

We do have harnesses and jacklines, and we wear PFDs all the time when
underway (unless we are off watch asleep, when it is quite easy to
hand). That is Bob's rule for anyone on our boat. (He also makes me
wear shoes on deck.) Bob always clips onto the jacklines whenever the
weather is at all bumpy.

Rosalie is the smart one aboard....STAND Your ground, girl! You got it
right and SAFE!

Larry

Well as I said before - most of the times we've gotten in trouble have
been when Bob persuaded me to go against my better judgment. But
let's face it - I can be as cautious as you like and still be wrong
about the weather or whatever the problem turns out to be. I use as
much information as I have available, but sometimes even that and
experience doesn't fully work to keep us out of trouble

We've just been fortunate in that when we've guessed wrong or made
mistakes that it didn't have a serious bad result. Mostly just some
paint scraped off the keel or something like that.