Ep 26: Learn to Sail: Part 14: Shortening Sail
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Welcome to Episode 26 of Carpe Diem Sailing and Part 14 of our Learn to Sail Series. In this video I discuss the theory of shortening sail or reefing for heavy weather. I talk about all the reasons why we shorten sail, I cover sail balance and I talk about various sail combinations
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Excellent explanation. Learning a lot from your videos. Thank you for the efforts to make them. Fair winds from the Dominican republic.
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks For your videos. Concise, well thought out and well delivered.
Thanks for watching!
Fantastic brother. Just what I needed to hear
Love hearing that. Glad you enjoyed it Shane. Thank you
Thank you very much for sharing these useful information.
So nice of you. Thanks for the comment Jim
Good video explain about % sail... very good
Glad you liked it
We rent sailboat often ... 22 or 23 foot Hunter ... truly enjoy the boat... it has no reefing points in the main and a hank on Genoa... when we've been out on more blustery days we choose to go with one sail ... often the main alone... though we have used just the Genoa too. What are your thoughts on that? I feel like you might say ... stick with the main when using one sail... but I thought I would not put words in you mouth. Also ... my old O'Day Mariner 2+2 does have a roller reefing boom... most of my friends don't approve of the idea ... but some boat designer thought enough of it to include it in the design... I have never done it ... but by golly I want to! Lol. You need to make adjustments to the main sheets I have not yet figured out. There was a part you could get back in the day to adapt the connection of the main sheets but not readily available today. Do you think I am crazy to want to try out this feature?? Lol... just wondering?? Thanks much ... I really enjoy your videos. Oh no reefing points in the mainsail of the Mariner either.... but I am will to address that... none the less I would like to try the feature.
Thanks for the kind comment Jerry. Generally the thought process is to reef the main first in a fractional rig where the mainsail is the the main driving force and the jib is smaller and balances. Masthead rigs get most of their drive from big genoas so it makes sense to go to a smaller headsail first. Given the situation you describe with no reefs in the main you are limited. My boat sails well with just a head sail. Word of caution if you only have one set of lower shrouds, there is no fore and aft support for the mast and I have heard it said that mast support is weakened without a mainsail. I've heard of roller reefing boom systems though I have never used one. I don't think you're crazy to try it out. I would.
@@CarpeDiemSailingMagazine thank you so much!!! I am going to try it... got to nail down the approach to the mainsheet .. exciting to try anything new to me!
Would love to hear it goes. Keep me posted
How do you shift the center of effort forward if it’s too far back? And vice versa.
Easiest way is sail choice. By reefing the main you shift the effort forward, also raking the mast fore and aft, trim of the boat will alter the CoE. My favourite blue water rig is the cutter, when the wind pipes up you can remove or furl the headsail furthest forward and then you can hank on (my preference) or hoist a small heavy weather or storm sail on the inner stay moving the CoE aft and closer to CLR