wrote:
I have twin jib halyards and am planning to replace a headstay luff
foil. The twin foil has some advantages but is more bulky, I'm not
sure we will ever need to swap headsails on the fly.

Another issue is the spinnaker halyard.... singular. This is a frac-
rigged boat and the spinnaker halyard is run to a swivel block at the
hounds then up to a thru-block just below the mast head. I've been
thinking of taking the swivel block off and setting a masthead
spinnaker, then mounting another thru-block at the hounds and re-
routing the starboard jib halyard to become a second frac spinnaker
halyard.

Any opinions about the utility of these two configurations:
1- twin jib halyards, twin luff foil on headstay, single spinnaker
halyard
vs
2- single jib halyard, single luff foil on headstay, masthead
spinnaker + frac spinnaker halyards

A sailing topic! How dare you?

I'd question if the value of being able to do a quick head sail change
is not in fact outweighed by the windage of the double foil, also I know
it's not much but it does move some extra weight aloft.

All in all I'd rather have the spinnaker flexibility.

Cheeers
Marty

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:07:05 -0400, Martin Baxter
wrote this crap:


A sailing topic! How dare you?

I'd question if the value of being able to do a quick head sail change
is not in fact outweighed by the windage of the double foil, also I know
it's not much but it does move some extra weight aloft.


What windage of the foil? Racing boats use them, there is not much
windage. In fact, using hanks probably is more inefficient.




I'm Horvath and I approve of this post.

Bloody Horvath wrote:
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:07:05 -0400, Martin Baxter
wrote this crap:


A sailing topic! How dare you?

I'd question if the value of being able to do a quick head sail change
is not in fact outweighed by the windage of the double foil, also I know
it's not much but it does move some extra weight aloft.


What windage of the foil? Racing boats use them, there is not much
windage. In fact, using hanks probably is more inefficient.

Indeed, a foil is probably better than hanks, but a double foil
indubitably has more windage than a single foil.

Cheers
Marty