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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: double headstay
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:56:00 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- John Curtis writes:
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- Add two headsails and drop the main and you have a
- nice downwind rig, good under auto steering without
- significant potential for dangerous jibes.
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- Provided both sails are pointing backwards, that is, they are both
- poled out well beyond the headstay. There's a good discussion of this
- in John Letcher's book SELF-STEERING FOR SAILING CRAFT (International
- Marine Publishing. Camden, ME). Actually, there's no real reason why
- both sails could not be hanked on to a single headstay, providing the
- hanks are sewn on staggered. Letcher single-handed many thousands of
- miles with duals on his two boats ISLAND GIRL and ALEUTKA. He also
- has a nice history of dual rigs that includes descriptions of Otway
- Waller's rig from 1930 (transAt crossing) and Wright Britton's Roller
- Wings for DELIGHT on which he sailed with his wifein the North Atlantic.
- He also mentions John Guzzwell's (TREKKA Around The World. Adlard Coles)
- spinnaker + twins set-up.
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- Fido
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