Hi there,

what about use a furler to close the spinnaker ?
here are some F16 that have this system and is pretty fast and easy.
Any idea ?

like on the weta

for a furler to work the spinnaker needs to be really, really flat

so flat that it usually isn't that good for running deep and is usually called a genoa, gennaker, reacher, hooter, screacher

Correct... i'm speaking about a 19m2 to 21m2 gennaker like the H16 but a little bigger.
what do you think ?



Edited by hc18ita on Oct 24, 2011 - 01:38 AM.

rick white, who wrote the classic " catamaran racing for the 90's"sells a "hooter" kit for the hobie wave. people have also fitted similar furling hooters to the h14 and pics are available on the net. basically you need a special sail made for the boat and all up it's likely to cost us$1000 or more. if you want something off the shelf the only furling gennaker i know for small multis is the wetas and thats only about 8.5m2. personally i'm 1 of those who don7t think adding sail to the stock h16 is a good idea...

rick white, who wrote the classic " catamaran racing for the 90's"sells a "hooter" kit for the hobie wave. people have also fitted similar furling hooters to the h14 and pics are available on the net. basically you need a special sail made for the boat and all up it's likely to cost us$1000 or more. if you want something off the shelf the only furling gennaker i know for small multis is the wetas and thats only about 8.5m2. personally i'm 1 of those who don7t think adding sail to the stock h16 is a good idea...

I'm speaking about an H18, i've speaked about H16 just for an example about the gennaker

I'm speaking about an H18, i've speaked about H16 just for an example about the gennaker

I'm speaking about an H18, i've speaked about H16 just for an example about the gennaker

looks like you were getting hit with the "ajax timeout too"

for me it seems to mean the post has been sent even though it doesn't show for some time

the h18 should be better able to handle such a big foresail, do some research on the code zero "spinnaker" that the usa and dutch teams trialed for the beijing olympics

i think they used the standard tornado tube launcher but the sail was probably flat enough that it could have been furled

you can see from this pic how the halyard is much tighter/straighter than normal tornado spin, how flat the sail is and how they are able to use it upwind? when the other teams have kept there normal assym spins in the chute

http://catsailingnews.blogspot.com/2011/09/ac45s-china-team-with-more-tornado.html

great for soloing, light winds and tight reaches

lousy for deep runs



Edited by erice on Oct 24, 2011 - 04:13 PM.