Thank You so much for this video! I bought a new furler and there are NO application instructions in the box or on their web site. You took all the guessing out of the set up. Thank You Jim
@Peter Lundh thanks for the video! I believe I have the exact same masthead on my 44' Dromor Athena and am thinking about getting a gennaker furler. Your setup seems to work well without the genoa installed, but I am worried the furled gennoa will clash with the furled gennaker. Does your system work with the genoa furled?
I have this kind of furling on my geneoa and I frkn hate it. Always gets twirled in the forestay under a windy condition. Any load on the sail makes furling impossible. Snuffer makes way more sense on a sail like this. Imo
+Bill C I had the same problems with the furler , after one season I opted for the sock solution . True it is not as simple and handy as a furler , but it puts far less stress on the canvas .
We just bought a top down furler and this video was invaluable, thank you! Can you possibly tell us what brand of double stanchion block was shown, as I've not seen anything like that in Australia and would like to import for our boat? Smooth seas Dave
Looks nice at the pier. Furling and unfurling such a sail at sea would be rather tricky as someone said before. The best way to hoist a gennaker is a bowsprit. Removable bowsprits are easy to install and less expensive than furlers.
What size and make gennaker are you using? Great video. Do you still like the Furlex? Thank you.
Thank You so much for this video! I bought a new furler and there are NO application instructions in the box or on their web site. You took all the guessing out of the set up.
Thank You
Jim
Even Selden has not provided a video nearly as good as this. You have provided new gennaker furler owners with a really valuable tutorial. Thank you.
Peter, where did you find the stanchion mounted double fairleads that open? Can you send me a link? Thanks
Selden mast product, find a Selden dealer
Whats the advantage of this system over a snuffer out of interest?
Can you leave it all up and use your regular jib or do you have to take it down each leg?
Why do you only fly with one sheet, rather than two?
What a beautiful Spinnaker.
@Peter Lundh thanks for the video! I believe I have the exact same masthead on my 44' Dromor Athena and am thinking about getting a gennaker furler. Your setup seems to work well without the genoa installed, but I am worried the furled gennoa will clash with the furled gennaker. Does your system work with the genoa furled?
Did you ever get reply on your important question? I know many cases where that goes wrong
Thank you,nice video.
For a beginner like me ,very helpfully!
I have this kind of furling on my geneoa and I frkn hate it. Always gets twirled in the forestay under a windy condition. Any load on the sail makes furling impossible. Snuffer makes way more sense on a sail like this. Imo
+Bill C I had the same problems with the furler , after one season I opted for the sock solution . True it is not as simple and handy as a furler , but it puts far less stress on the canvas .
We just bought a top down furler and this video was invaluable, thank you! Can you possibly tell us what brand of double stanchion block was shown, as I've not seen anything like that in Australia and would like to import for our boat?
Smooth seas
Dave
They're a Selden product, you can google it. www.seldenmast.com/en/products/line_management/double_fairlead.html
I like to see it with a 500 sqmeter genaker... :)
Anyone seen how this works in 20+ kts wind?
good stuff
They're made by Selden
jblumhorst i
Looks nice at the pier. Furling and unfurling such a sail at sea would be rather tricky as someone said before. The best way to hoist a gennaker is a bowsprit. Removable bowsprits are easy to install and less expensive than furlers.
HA? You still need to have a furling system even if you have a bowsprit, concept is the same.
Or a sock