Genoa furling line length?

[Bruce]

Time to replace the genoa furling line. Is there a Rule of Thumb or common sense way to figure out the correct length without having the line off of the drum?
- Bruce
Joie de Vivre
1995 Oceanis 300

[bungee.john]

Depends on to headsails you intend to use as from a jib to genekar they all have different foot lengths so the furling line needs to be long enough with still a few turns to furl the sail with the longest foot with enough to have the clew rotate around the forestay at least once
bungee

[Bruce]

Thought it might be something like that. I estimated 30' for on deck from the furling drum to to the helm position across the cockpit, added 10' for turns on the drum and a tail at the line keeper (rounding up widely in both cases, better that it be too long rather than too short), with another 18' for the new 155 Genoa = 58". Bought 60' of 1/4" sta-set x. Could be just dumb luck, but turned out right. Measured length of old furling line was 60'.

[Mark J Wilme]

will your rope clutch hold 1/4" line ?  It seems small

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Bruce <bruceg...@comcast.net> wrote:

Thought it might be something like that.  I estimated 30' for on deck from the furling drum to to the helm position across the cockpit, added 10' for turns on the drum and a tail at the line keeper (rounding up widely in both cases, better that it be too long rather than too short), with another 18' for the new 155 Genoa = 58". Bought 60' of 1/4" sta-set x. Could be just dumb luck, but turned out right. Measured length of old furling line was 60'.

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