Flexible furler manual and other thoughts

Posted By: GeorgeSK - P-23 "DayDream", P-15 "Pxyis"
Date: 5/17/09 7:44p.m.

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In Response To: Sail rigging for a P-21 (Jim Pietrovito)

http://www.sailcdi.com/sailpdf/FF2%20manual%204.04.pdf Pick a nice, low wind day to get the genoa on, and get it up nice and high. "deck sweepers" are nice and some more efficient, but are hard to see around. You need a long line tied onto the furler's genoa uphaul for beginning of season installation. Keep your knot on the clew of the genny small so it does not hang up on the shrouds as you tack. A simple lark's head (cow hitch - it is called lots of things) works fine. I know - it doesn't look like it should, but it does. Main is very simple, but you may want to increase your leverage on the outhaul - it comes from Precision as just a one-to-one. When you raise the main, try to get it very tight. My main halyard lust cleats to the mast, so I use a little line with a bowline loop tied to the halyard with a rolling hitch so I can use the boom vang to get the main halyard REALLY tight before cleating it.