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Topic: Jib
Can the jib be used with roller reefing?
| ID Number: | 000027 |
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| Date: | 2008-12-05 |
| Short Answer: | No |
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| Section: | §V-6.0 |
| Status: | Tabled |
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Comments
| Date: 2008-12-05 Name: Richard Robbins | The thought here is to make the boat easier to day-sail. I would doubt that there would be a performance boost but the question is could a roller reefed jib co-exist on the race course? The boat would be easier to single-hand or be sailed with less able sailors. |
| Date: 2008-12-05 Name: Andrew Burton | I am aware of the law of unintended consequences, that makes me leery of making any rule changes that could end up changing our boat. Will you allow the roller furling drum to be below decks? How about vertical battens? It'd be pretty unreasonable not to allow them, if you allow furling jibs. And a foil is necessary, too, unless you allow the luff to be zipped around the headstay, and in that case how do you stop the halyard being used to rake the mast fore and aft? How about sun covers? Not fast, but a zip up one hoisted on the spin halyard will be necessary to protect the sail from the weather. And all of a sudden there doesn't seem to be a big time-savings with furling over hanking and unhanking a sail. Remember the story of 202, and that measurers ruling; They ruled that even painted toerails were illegal on a Shields. And I agree. There are certain things that Shields don't have. Roller furling would give a boat big sail-handling advantages at mark roundings, and modern low profile continuous-line furlers shouldn't alter the profile of the sailplan. But they would force a big added expense that only a few boats would take advantage of, indeed furthering the separation between front and back. Because all the top guys would have to get one. The rules don't allow roller furling so the answer of the technical committee to the question should be a quick NO. As it should be to anything that will make it more expensive to sail our boats at the top level...like that $400-dollar digital compass I have sitting in my library. |
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