"Bart" wrote in message
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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.


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