Furling Jib explanation please

[Paul]

I want to add a Furling Jib system to my 16ft Wayfarer.

 

Mailspeed Marine offer a Furling drum and top swivel for dayboats/small cruisers at about £46, for up to 100sq feet of sail. The Wayfarer Genoa clocks in at 46 sq feet so its an ideal bit of kit at a great price. The drum is rated at 550kg breaking at 1100kg with stainless bearings, a single rope design - pull out with the sheet, roll in with the drum.

 

I'm not precisely sure what else is needed. The wire halyards have to be resized, I'll add a stainless tension adjuster and rope plus cleat is needed for the drum.

 

But what kind of tube does the jib wrap around? And how is the tube attached to the drum? All I can see on the diagram in the catalogue is a "U" bracket and pin to attached the wire halyard. Two inch uPVC plumbing waste pipe with a notch each end seems ideal to wrap the jib around!!

 

The jib has plastic clips to attach to the wire halyards. How would it need to be modified to attach to the furling gear?

 

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

 

-Paul

UK

[Roy Ryder]

Sounds to me that it is furling not reefing system only. If so the sail
furls around the forestay, no foil. If a foil is used, it is made with a
track that the sail luff rope (replaces the piston hanks) slides up through.

Roy Ryder

Paul <sa...@arizona2blah.screaming.net.blah> wrote in message
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[PyroJames]

I don't know the piece of gear that you have seen, but it sounds like it is
along the lines of the old Wickam Martin gear. You should be aware that this
is a _furling_ gear as opposed to a _roller_reefing_ gear. It is not
intended to be used for reefing, rather, it is just a simple way to furl
your sail when you no longer want it up.

That said, it doesn't actually have anything for the sail to roll around, in
the manner that roller reefing gears do. The sail is set on its own halyard
in addition to the forestay, and is not hanked on to anything. It is set
free flying. You would need to remove the "clips" from your headsail to furl
it, but should not tension the gear with a bottlescrew. Tension should only
be applied with the halyard. You should really have a wire luff headsail for
this set up too, with the tack and head of the sail formed by the wire luff.

HTH

--
PyroJames
"Dawn Wind of Kirribilli"
Titchmarsh, Essex, UK.

[jim barr]

In article <38f2...@news.screaming.net>, Paul <sa...@arizona2blah.scream
ing.net.blah> writes

> I want to add a Furling Jib system to my 16ft Wayfarer.
>  
> Mailspeed Marine offer a Furling drum and top swivel for
> dayboats/small cruisers at about £46, for up to 100sq feet of sail.
> The Wayfarer Genoa clocks in at 46 sq feet so its an ideal bit of
> kit at a great price. The drum is rated at 550kg breaking at 1100kg
> with stainless bearings, a single rope design - pull out with the
> sheet, roll in with the drum.
>  
>

Sounds like a reef system, not a furl. I am trying to do the same for
my W and at this years Winter conference at Grapham Water I was assured
that even a furling system should cost about £80 if it is to be of any
use. The main problems with the cheap ones seems to be the quality of
the bearings and the fact that the furl/reef line comes off the drum

Any more advice or experience much appreciated!

jim

W7802

Jim Barr http://www.wandana.demon.co.uk
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