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A look at the many options in mainsail design. Battens can be full-length, standard, swing, or a combination. Reefing can be in-boom, in-mast, and various numbers and sizes of slabs. 5 pages with photos.
[Blue Water Sailing, May 2004]
Well-illustrated primer on how to adjust the halyard or cunningham, outhaul, mast bend, boom vang, main sheet and traveler for good sail shape in varying conditions.
[Quantum Sail Design Group, LLC, Annapolis, MD, USA]
Step-by-step guide to installing lazy jacks.
[Jasper & Bailey Sailmakers, Newport, RI, USA]
One couple′s choice of equipment to reduce friction when lowering and raising and make the sail generally more controllable. Other options briefly discussed. Photos.
[SailNet, 1 November 2002]
Long small-print page covering sail design, making, and handling questions and Neri′s often useful answers. Search for your keywords within the file or just browse through it.
[SetSail]
Succinct illustrated summaries of sailmaking methods, the particular sails, their trim and handling, and related topics. Chapter 4 covers mainsails, genoas and other jibs, normal, cruising, and asymmetrical spinnakers, spinnaker dousing sock, staysails, drifter, blast reacher, and storm sails. Chapter 5 covers mainsail trim.
[UK Sailmakers, USA]
How to examine and test your mainsail to see if it′s ready for replacement or re-cutting. Also a quick tour through some of the newer sail technologies available in a replacement.
[SailNet, 30 April 2004]
Description and illustration of a set of lazy jacks that can be pulled away from the sail when raising or sailing to avoid catching and friction.
[C&C Sailing Association Northeast, London, ON, Canada]
Battened sails will chafe downwind. Here′s a suggestion for avoiding chafe on spreaders and stays.
[SetSail]
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 boomed sails.
[SetSail.com, Charlotte, NC, USA]
. . . a test on a Morgan 41′ Out Island ketch where, upon removing the mainsail, the boat lost only 1/2 knot of speed, but cut its leeway in half
Brian Eiland
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