Thread: headsail furlers -the good, the bad and the ugly...sound off!
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Default headsail furlers -the good, the bad and the ugly...sound off!
On 2008-08-11 13:22:54 -0400, lid (Jonathan Ganz) said:

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Dave wrote:

That's consistent with what I've experienced. I generally end up taking
a second reef in the main before rolling any of the 150 in.

Doesn't that give you a fairly unbalanced helm? That's a lot of CE forward.

Typically, it improves the boat's balance and unloads the helm somewhat.

If a particular boat picks up lee helm, the rules are different of course.

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