"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