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Ways to improve mainsail handling, including in-mast and in-boom furling systems, friction reduction tracks, full battens, lazyjacks, and control lines led aft.
[SailNet, 18 November 2002]
An overview of batten, traveler, vang, preventer, boom brake, reefing and furling systems
[Blue Water Sailing, September 2002]
Pros and cons of vertical battens for luff-furling headsails and mainsails and advice for designing luff-furling sails.
[SetSail]
Brief grab bag of facts and commentary about reefing and furling systems. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
Step-by-step description (no illustrations) for reefing a mainsail with traditional reefpoints.
[SailNet]
A mixed bag of responses by Neri to questions about sail decisions. Although you need to look around, there is plenty of substantive advice on choosing, rigging, and reefing your headsails.
[SetSail.com, Charlotte, NC, USA]
Tips on how to reef the mainsail safely. 3 pages including photos.
[Cruising World, August 2001]
Tour of mainsail furling systems available.
[Sail Magazine, October 2002]
All the bits and pieces you need to install lazy jacks on your boomed sail, including a "pull-back" hook which eliminates the need to modify your existing sail cover, and elk hide block covers to prevent hardware chafing the sail.
[Schaefer Marine, Inc., New Bedford, MA, USA]
System uses vertical control lines from topping lift to boom through grommets in the sail to allow you to drop your sail and flake it automatically
[Martinus Van Breems, Inc, Norwalk, CT, USA]
The old sailor′s query of when do you reef sails has the answer: the first time you think of it.
Bruce Van Sant
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