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Date Posted: 14:21:15 05/15/09 Fri
Author: Bob Hall
Subject: mainsail downhaul

I've been thinking of ways to solve the problem of getting my mainsail down in a hurry while singlehanding. I experimented today with tying a line to my second reef point (the part that would become the tack of a double-reefed main). This works well, but there's still a lot of sail left to get down. I also tried attaching the line just below the head of the sail, but my sliders get jammed in the track.

Anybody have any luck with this? Or have a different way of dropping the main fast?

When I'm coming into the marina downwind and singlehanded with heavy wind, I really don't have a lot of time to spend away from the tiller fucking around with the main. It'd be really cool to get a downhaul system set up that works so you can just do everything from the cockpit.

Maybe I'll just buy a boom furler system, LOL.

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Replies:

Re: mainsail downhaul -- Bellingham Mike (Track car systems), 09:41:37 05/16/09 Sat
Re: mainsail downhaul -- Bill, 21:43:06 05/16/09 Sat
- Re: mainsail downhaul -- Jay, 19:40:55 05/17/09 Sun
- Re: mainsail downhaul -- Bob Hall, 16:01:07 05/26/09 Tue
  - Re: mainsail downhaul -- chris, 19:23:39 05/26/09 Tue
    - Re: mainsail downhaul -- Bellingham Mike, 20:44:16 05/26/09 Tue
  - Re: mainsail downhaul -- Paul Miller, Nimble 20, Deland, FL, 08:47:07 05/27/09 Wed
  - Re: mainsail downhaul -- Bob Lee, 19:18:09 06/17/09 Wed
Re: mainsail downhaul -- Ari, 09:59:44 05/18/09 Mon
- Re: mainsail downhaul -- Jay, 20:34:17 05/26/09 Tue

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