DSK wrote:
Thom Stewart wrote:

Doug,

Sorry my answer wasn't complete.
My Harken Furler is a Mark III, model 0 and it is replacing the same.

I love it. When I was talking to Herb Hild about a head sail for my old
furler, he said " Anything that will keep me, my family, and my friends
off the Pointy End of the boat, while under way is a good thing." That
is my Motto also.


Agreed. And Harken stuff is very good.

One minor objection I have... and this is on OPB's... people with roller
furled sails who refuse to take any action to secure them for storms. So
far, this season we've had some brushes with hurricanes but no bad hits,
and there are still a half-dozen lazy and/or dumb owners in our marina
who refuse to take off & stow their roller-furled genoas. Lucky so far,
but our boat is between two of them.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King


My genoa, made by Hood, came with a cover made of sunbrella. Longest zipper I've ever seen, you attach
a loop from the cover to the spin halyard, close the cover around the bottom of the genny, close the zipper, holding
onto the zip tab, haul away on the halyard and up goes the cover zipping closed as it goes. There's a tab at the bottom
of the thing that covers the end of the zipper and snaps closed when it's all done up. I imagine it'd hold in a pretty good blow.
However if I thought I was going to be facing hurricane force winds I would remove all my canvas and stow it below.

Cheers
Marty

Martin Baxter wrote:

My genoa, made by Hood, came with a cover made of sunbrella. Longest
zipper I've ever seen, you attach
a loop from the cover to the spin halyard, close the cover around the
bottom of the genny, close the zipper, holding
onto the zip tab, haul away on the halyard and up goes the cover zipping
closed as it goes. There's a tab at the bottom
of the thing that covers the end of the zipper and snaps closed when
it's all done up. I imagine it'd hold in a pretty good blow.

Yes that should be a good way of securing the sail, also keel the leech
from UV damage. Much better (although slightly more work) than sewing a
strip of heavy canvas along the leach.

However if I thought I was going to be facing hurricane force winds I
would remove all my canvas and stow it below.

Right, but then, you have good sense.

One of boats next door to ours in the marina is a nice Allied ketch,
owned by a tall slim elderly man. I offered the help him get his canvas
down for one of the earlier hurricanes, and then gently & tactfully
insisted that I help him get his canvas down... the result is that his
wife thinks I'm a *heck* of a nice guy ;)

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Doug,

Please make sure you tell that slim old gentleman, that this fat old
gentleman says, to tell him you are ready and able to get those sails
back on and set or him.

Ole Thom

"Martin Baxter" wrote


My genoa, made by Hood, came with a cover made of sunbrella. Longest
zipper I've ever seen, you attach
a loop from the cover to the spin halyard, close the cover around
the bottom of the genny, close the zipper, holding
onto the zip tab, haul away on the halyard and up goes the cover
zipping closed as it goes. There's a tab at the bottom
of the thing that covers the end of the zipper and snaps closed when
it's all done up. I imagine it'd hold in a pretty good blow.
However if I thought I was going to be facing hurricane force winds
I would remove all my canvas and stow it below.

That's what I did for hurricane Isabel, last year, but normally just
wind the sheets around 3 times and tie a seperate short line around
the furled sail.

Scotty