On Aug 31, 11:40 am, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message

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What's the advantage?

Joe

Another advantage is you can store the staysail lashed to the boom and
covered with a sail cover like a mainsail. You can also store your jib
or jenny hanked on already and in a bag on the foredeck. This makes a
cutter boat look very cool and it's quite fast and handy getting under
way.

Wilbur Hubbard

Good point Wilbur.

My preference is to have a roller furler on a staysail. So you
leave the genoa rolled up with you have to short tack up the
river, or in heavy weather, and use the genoa fo lighter
conditions where you don't have to tack as often. Put a
code zero out in front and you have a nice suit of sails for
all conditions.

My preference is to have a roller furler on a staysail.



You can have RF and the boom, Bart.



RB
35s5
NY

On Sep 1, 7:00 am, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
My preference is to have a roller furler on a staysail.

You can have RF and the boom, Bart.

RB
35s5
NY

You can have the boom. I wouldn't have one.

In article .com,
Bart wrote:
On Sep 1, 7:00 am, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
My preference is to have a roller furler on a staysail.

You can have RF and the boom, Bart.

RB
35s5
NY

You can have the boom. I wouldn't have one.


me too... don't like self-tacking jibs either.

On Sep 1, 11:28 pm, (Jonathan Ganz) wrote:
In article .com,

Bart wrote:
On Sep 1, 7:00 am, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
My preference is to have a roller furler on a staysail.

You can have RF and the boom, Bart.

RB
35s5
NY

You can have the boom. I wouldn't have one.

me too... don't like self-tacking jibs either.

I've been a fan of them since I saw one on a 38'
Swedish boat owned b a friend of mine. He and
his son won the Double-Handed Farallone's with
it.

I've used them on Hanse's and the system works
well--any you can put a big Genoa for the light air
days. I only miss the Genoa when sailing down
wind. A spinnaker would fix that.

"Bart" wrote in message
oups.com...
On Sep 1, 11:28 pm, (Jonathan Ganz) wrote:
In article .com,

Bart wrote:
On Sep 1, 7:00 am, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
My preference is to have a roller furler on a staysail.

You can have RF and the boom, Bart.

RB
35s5
NY

You can have the boom. I wouldn't have one.

me too... don't like self-tacking jibs either.

I've been a fan of them since I saw one on a 38'
Swedish boat owned b a friend of mine. He and
his son won the Double-Handed Farallone's with
it.

I've used them on Hanse's and the system works
well--any you can put a big Genoa for the light air
days. I only miss the Genoa when sailing down
wind. A spinnaker would fix that.



My only experience with them was with boats that seemed to have very narrow
tracks athwartships.


--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

Have you sailed the Alerion 28? It works very well on that boat. And
I'm sure it can work well on others.



RB
35s5
NY

On Sep 2, 10:38 am, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
Have you sailed the Alerion 28? It works very well on that boat. And
I'm sure it can work well on others.


Read the advertising brochure a bit more carefully, Bubbles. Or maybe
you simply don't know enough about sailing to recognize the difference
between the Hoyt boom and a plain ol' staysail boom.

As it happens, I have sailed an Alerion; the Hoyt boom is neat but it
takes up a lot of room on & under the foredeck. Personally, I wouldn't
recommend, unless on a much bigger boat.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Read the advertising brochure a bit more carefully, Bubbles. Or maybe
you simply don't know enough about sailing to recognize the
difference
between the Hoyt boom and a plain ol' staysail boom.



Sigh.
They are both types of staysail booms as the Hoyt Jib boom can be used
for staysails. Don't believe that, Doug???
You can find them on Island Packet boats for example, such as the
newer 350. But if ads are all that matter to you, then IP calls it
"The Hoyt Boom equipped Staysail." Check it out, dummy!
I oughta know, Doug. I actually work with this stuff while you read
Cruising World. I'm working on a project now using the system on a
Tayana.
I've sailed the 28 and had no issue with the deck space used. The 28's
design goal was not to have anyone on the foredeck anyway. There
aren't even any lifelines on most hulls.

You've been busted again, Doug.



RB
35s5
NY

On Sep 2, 11:41 am, "Capt. Rob" wrote:
Read the advertising brochure a bit more carefully, Bubbles. Or maybe
you simply don't know enough about sailing to recognize the
difference
between the Hoyt boom and a plain ol' staysail boom.

Sigh.
They are both types of staysail booms as the Hoyt Jib boom can be used
for staysails. Don't believe that, Doug???
You can find them on Island Packet boats for example, such as the
newer 350. But if ads are all that matter to you, then IP calls it
"The Hoyt Boom equipped Staysail." Check it out, dummy!
I oughta know, Doug. I actually work with this stuff while you read
Cruising World. I'm working on a project now using the system on a
Tayana.
I've sailed the 28 and had no issue with the deck space used. The 28's
design goal was not to have anyone on the foredeck anyway. There
aren't even any lifelines on most hulls.

You've been busted again, Doug.

RB
35s5
NY

Doug, Doesn't it make you want to puke when he does
that "Sigh"?