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Mark Scheffer
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| 08/21/2009 12:49 PM |
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| I live in Maine and race PHRF. I occasionally cruise or pleasure sail my J/35 and have considered switching from my Schaefer tuff luff to a Profurl racing furling system with the split/removable drum. I'm tired of trying to dowse the headsail in wind by myself. can't get the wife to go forward to do it either. I would cruise with the drum in place and take it off to race. Anyone have experience with this type of system? I don't want to kill my performance and probably would not consider it if racing OD. Thanks. Mark |
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Robert Gordenker
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| 08/22/2009 6:27 AM |
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Mark,
I have had the same thoughts for TIME MACHINE. Transports would so much more pleasant and the chances to just head out for a pleasure sail shorthanded would be greatly increased. There is one boat here on the Great Lakes that switches from the furler to a racing 'Tuff-Luff' when racing. They transport with the furling system in place and the T-L coiled up in the boat. When they get to the racing site, they sent a man up the mast, restrain the rig with halyards and drop the furling system and hoist the T-L. The Furling system of-course can not be coiled or bent much, so it gets set on shore in a 'safe' place until the racing is over, then the process gets reversed. The switch takes them about 20 minutes with a pretty full crew.
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Mark Scheffer
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| 08/25/2009 3:46 PM |
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| Thanks for the reply. That sounds like a lot of work. I am pretty tempted to put this on the winter wish list. I might even be tempted to get an asymmetric chute for those cruising days as well! thanks. Mark |
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Bill Jenkins
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| 11/18/2009 8:25 PM |
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Mark,
I'm Bill Jenkins and my wife and I own Double Shot 121, and, I believe, is the boat referred to by Robert. I have a Harken furler, which also converts with the split drum. I have done some PHRF raciing with the roller rig with the drum pulled off and have done well. It would not perform to OD performance, in my opinion, but is not too much of a deterent for PHRF. I would recommend spending the little extra to have a new forstay rod built for the roller so you have the choice of swapping out for OD racing if that is a consideration. I can detail the steps for swapping the forstays (3 years of swapping has developed a good process!) if you are interested.
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Robert Gordenker
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| 11/19/2009 9:30 AM |
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Bill,
Hope that DOUBLESHOT had a great season. I would like to encourage you to share the "good process" that you developed for swapping out the furler and converting to OD configuration. If it's too long for this forum, we could get it posted on the website! I am still seriously considering this addition to TIME MACHINE as it will make the long transports and short-handed cruises OH-SO much more fun
Robert
P.S. Yes, I was referring to you in my previous post. |
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Maury Niebur
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| 01/08/2010 4:36 PM |
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I haven't rigged my J35 for this yet, but on my Bene 36.7 I had two seperate headstays built. One had a Harken split drum furler on it and the other was a straight headstay with a carbofoil on it. I used the foil equipped headstay for all my fully crewed racing and the furling sail for single and doublehanded stuff as well as what limited cruising I did on the boat. When I had the whole crew at the boat, I'd send someone up with rig with the top of the headstay and they'd detach the old one.. connect the new one. I dont think it ever took more than about 10-15 minutes. Storing/transporting the furling headstay rig would probably be the only real issue for anyone.
If I ever get around to cruising the 35, I'll probably go the same route. |
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