Re: [bolger] Balanced lug
>Especially about a larger balanced lug on a single-handed boat. From theRun a small line to the end of the yard. It holds the peak up as you
>little I've read it seems the bug-a-boo is handling the yard when
>reefing or dropping sail.
lower the halyard.
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In a message dated 7/6/03 6:19:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
What size is your intended balanced lug??? I'd say that the envisioned
disasters are much overstated unless your sail is either way outsized for your boat
(meainng you can't easily move around to souse it) or it is a really large
sail anyway. For a singlehander, anything under maybe 180 ft^2 is a piece of
cake, assuming that you don't drop it to a 30 kt beam wind :-)
You can install a peak halyard which will help a bit, but isn't proof against
a stupid (or very unfortunate) bit of boathandling. If you graph out the end
of the yard as the sail comes down, you'll see that it doesn't just "stick up
in the air where it was". The yard will still flail around quite a bit if
you've got the wrong wind for it. Still, it helps a good bit in those
circumstance.
Should have said this at first; the boomed balanced lug is a really docile
sail under most sailing conditions, boomless is a bit more challenging. Maybe
one should be judicious in deciding when to reef, but the boomed balanced lug is
really well-adapted to having many reef points, not moving its CE when
reefed, and being easy to reef (use jiffy reefing and don't try to reef it flying;
drop it into the boat, takes just seconds)
Cheers/Carron
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bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
> . From theRick,
> little I've read it seems the bug-a-boo is handling the yard when
> reefing or dropping sail. Stories of the yard coming down tail first
> through the hatch and thrashing around on end while the sail blows
> itself to shreds?
>
> Surely this has been worked out by someone? Lazy jacks, a peak halyard,
> a bridled halyard on the yard, something else?
What size is your intended balanced lug??? I'd say that the envisioned
disasters are much overstated unless your sail is either way outsized for your boat
(meainng you can't easily move around to souse it) or it is a really large
sail anyway. For a singlehander, anything under maybe 180 ft^2 is a piece of
cake, assuming that you don't drop it to a 30 kt beam wind :-)
You can install a peak halyard which will help a bit, but isn't proof against
a stupid (or very unfortunate) bit of boathandling. If you graph out the end
of the yard as the sail comes down, you'll see that it doesn't just "stick up
in the air where it was". The yard will still flail around quite a bit if
you've got the wrong wind for it. Still, it helps a good bit in those
circumstance.
Should have said this at first; the boomed balanced lug is a really docile
sail under most sailing conditions, boomless is a bit more challenging. Maybe
one should be judicious in deciding when to reef, but the boomed balanced lug is
really well-adapted to having many reef points, not moving its CE when
reefed, and being easy to reef (use jiffy reefing and don't try to reef it flying;
drop it into the boat, takes just seconds)
Cheers/Carron
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I have zero experience with a balanced lug sail. But I wanna know more.
Especially about a larger balanced lug on a single-handed boat. From the
little I've read it seems the bug-a-boo is handling the yard when
reefing or dropping sail. Stories of the yard coming down tail first
through the hatch and thrashing around on end while the sail blows
itself to shreds?
Surely this has been worked out by someone? Lazy jacks, a peak halyard,
a bridled halyard on the yard, something else?
Can someone educate me? Any recommended info sources?
Thanks,
Rick
Especially about a larger balanced lug on a single-handed boat. From the
little I've read it seems the bug-a-boo is handling the yard when
reefing or dropping sail. Stories of the yard coming down tail first
through the hatch and thrashing around on end while the sail blows
itself to shreds?
Surely this has been worked out by someone? Lazy jacks, a peak halyard,
a bridled halyard on the yard, something else?
Can someone educate me? Any recommended info sources?
Thanks,
Rick