Excellent job! A few questions... How many reefs does your main have? And do all reefing lines run to your cockpit? Do you have some type of line to aid in dropping the main? We have a Westsail 43. The only lines we have in the cockpit in relation to the main are the mainsheet and the traveler adjustment lines. We have to go to the mast to adjust the reef lines, outhaul, main halyard. And someone has to pull down on the sail in the tracks to get it to drop.
Hey, I'm a sailing instructor teaching on different boats every week, We have boats with all type of reefing techniques, this one has 1 line that pulls both on the clew and the tack of the sail all from the cockpit, some boats have two lines one for the clew one for the tack, and some boats have a ring that you attach from the mast and a line to pull on the new clew, but i think you always need a line to pull on the new tack, do you have a line like that?
@OranTeach ours has 3 reefs, each with their own line to the clews. We just hauled out and packed everything away so I'm not able to check right now. But I believe there are rings on the tack. We rarely are in conditions needing a reef, but when we do, our process has been to adjust the sail height to the reef point, secure the clew line, then run short lines through the 4 or 5 grommets in the sail between the clew and the tack and wrap the lines around the boom. This takes around 10 minutes. So when I saw your video of it taking less than a minute and all done from the cockpit, I was mesmerized
Excellent job! A few questions... How many reefs does your main have? And do all reefing lines run to your cockpit? Do you have some type of line to aid in dropping the main? We have a Westsail 43. The only lines we have in the cockpit in relation to the main are the mainsheet and the traveler adjustment lines. We have to go to the mast to adjust the reef lines, outhaul, main halyard. And someone has to pull down on the sail in the tracks to get it to drop.
Hey,
I'm a sailing instructor teaching on different boats every week,
We have boats with all type of reefing techniques, this one has 1 line that pulls both on the clew and the tack of the sail all from the cockpit, some boats have two lines one for the clew one for the tack, and some boats have a ring that you attach from the mast and a line to pull on the new clew, but i think you always need a line to pull on the new tack, do you have a line like that?
@OranTeach ours has 3 reefs, each with their own line to the clews. We just hauled out and packed everything away so I'm not able to check right now. But I believe there are rings on the tack. We rarely are in conditions needing a reef, but when we do, our process has been to adjust the sail height to the reef point, secure the clew line, then run short lines through the 4 or 5 grommets in the sail between the clew and the tack and wrap the lines around the boom. This takes around 10 minutes. So when I saw your video of it taking less than a minute and all done from the cockpit, I was mesmerized