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- From: aro@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Ormsby)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: Tuff Luff and other headstay foils
- Message-ID: <ARO.92Nov18162937@csthor.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:29:37 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: dwl@watson.ibm.com's message of 13 Nov 92 20: 18:59 GMT
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- With all of this discussion about tuff luffs, I'm surprised that
- nobody has mentioned the "obvious" compromise: keep the hanks on your
- foresails but have two forestays. I sailed on a Rival 34 which had
- this arrangement and it seemed to work pretty well. You need a
- suitable stemhead bracket if you are going to do this, though.
-
- I have a tuff luff equivalent (actually from Hood; I don't know what
- it is called) and I'm pretty happy with it. One the whole, for a
- cruising boat (which is how mine is used), I'd rather have hanks. But
- the foil is useful (and fun) for a quick headsail change if you have
- plenty of crew on board. I'd certainly want it for racing.
-
- Andrew Ormsby
- aro@aber.ac.uk
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