No problem. Some boats have so much roach, the main overlaps the backstay
by a foot or more.


Capt.Mooron wrote:
Yeah... Well, there ya go. I sail a full keeler. full batten, loose footed
with 3 reef points... It's reef the main, reef the main power from the
headsail.


I thought your boat was a mast head rigged cutter. Anyway
plenty of boats have the same characteristics, power from
the headsail.


Many full-batten boats have to give the boom a quick pump to get the sail
re-cambered to the new side when they tack. Again, not really a problem.


I've never had to do that and certainly wouldn't rig for it to occur in
light airs... where clean travel and quick tacks are required.

It doesn't really slow you donw tacking, you just have to
remember to do it. In fact it gives you more speed coming
out of the tack and forcing camber into the sail makes it
more powerful.

Personally I don't really like it either. The newer rig with
a few full battens up at the top, then some small
conventional battens along the lower leach, seem to work
pretty well and rarely have to be popped.



Then again I
don't have backstay clearence issues to deal with. It's a fin keeler thing.


heh not any kind of keel. It's a mid-girth of the mainsail
thing. How much sail area do you want? More roach is one way
to get more.



.... I think
it's a fair assumption to make that nobody on this group considers Bobsprit
a proficient sailor. He's marginal at best... totally ignorant of anything
but the very basics of navigation, He hardly ever deploys the headsail and
has never flown his chute.


But he always "wins."


It's his Lada.... if he wants a gold plated grill... who am I to argue?


Moi?
Argue??
Never!

DSK