but then you get the bozo's who buy the in mast furling and trade the
roach for convenience and wind up with a ****ty rig with no redeeming
virtues.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:24:31 -0400, Horvath
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:40:05 -0400, "Bill Farina"
wrote this crap:

Hunter Sailboats have something called a B&R "fractional rig" with swept
back spreaders. For the life of me, I can't figure out the advantage(s) of
this design. On the downside, they seem to make running downwind difficult
and create a high wind load. Any comments? Perhaps therein lies the
advantage. When you run downwind, you don't have to bother to put up a
sail.

There is no backstay. So there is a huge roach on the mainsail.




Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!