captainspicy
Junior Member
O.K. my wife Taryn and I are in the midst of major outfitting wo we can shoove off and go Cruising- extended Cruising with some serious Offshore. we're plannning about 4 years, leaving from the North East, to sail around the Carribean, than at some point sooner or later go the Canal and cross to the South Pacific.
This thread is my attempt to get advice on the design of our new headsail. We have a new main, 4 full batttens, on a tides Strong Track system with a lazybag/lazy jack set up. I had the sail reinforced for Offshore, and we put two big deep reefing points. my 2nd reef point takes me down to about 35% sail area.
Headsails.... this is where I need help. we have a great Gennacker w/ snuffing sock which is wonderful for light breezes. Winds in the 7knot or better range will sail an E 38 wonderfully with a good Main/headsail combo if you are sloop rigged like us. the rig is nice and tall and she will perform in light stuff with-out the Gennacker. THis has been my experience with the sails we have. But I have two headsails now, a 110% and a 135% genoa. I hate the Genoa. it just doesn;t do anything for the boat, it slows me down in fact. (BTW it's for sale if anyone is interested. used but in good shape.) So I mainly have sailed with 110% but I really feel I could do better and would like a better performing headsail. Also one that is larger, but not larger to a fault. I think the design and cut of the sail is where I can get what I want, but the problem is I just don't have the experience or expertise to know how or what to request of my sail maker. I will probably be using Doyle in Annapolis as they made our Mainsail and it performs awesome.
I just want to get feedback from folks like you out here who can help guide this next major item. Our new Headsail, yet to be designed/ordered. So if you can share some advice Please do. Thanks so much.
AHOY!
Captainspicy.
This thread is my attempt to get advice on the design of our new headsail. We have a new main, 4 full batttens, on a tides Strong Track system with a lazybag/lazy jack set up. I had the sail reinforced for Offshore, and we put two big deep reefing points. my 2nd reef point takes me down to about 35% sail area.
Headsails.... this is where I need help. we have a great Gennacker w/ snuffing sock which is wonderful for light breezes. Winds in the 7knot or better range will sail an E 38 wonderfully with a good Main/headsail combo if you are sloop rigged like us. the rig is nice and tall and she will perform in light stuff with-out the Gennacker. THis has been my experience with the sails we have. But I have two headsails now, a 110% and a 135% genoa. I hate the Genoa. it just doesn;t do anything for the boat, it slows me down in fact. (BTW it's for sale if anyone is interested. used but in good shape.) So I mainly have sailed with 110% but I really feel I could do better and would like a better performing headsail. Also one that is larger, but not larger to a fault. I think the design and cut of the sail is where I can get what I want, but the problem is I just don't have the experience or expertise to know how or what to request of my sail maker. I will probably be using Doyle in Annapolis as they made our Mainsail and it performs awesome.
I just want to get feedback from folks like you out here who can help guide this next major item. Our new Headsail, yet to be designed/ordered. So if you can share some advice Please do. Thanks so much.
AHOY!
Captainspicy.