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- From: tarkkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lauri Tarkkonen)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: double headstay
- Keywords: fun
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.210827.27923@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 21:08:27 GMT
- References: <1ej1qgINN68s@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 29
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- In <1ej1qgINN68s@morrow.stanford.edu> francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
-
- >John Curtis writes:
-
- > Add two headsails and drop the main and you have a
- > nice downwind rig, good under auto steering without
- > significant potential for dangerous jibes.
-
- >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.
-
- > Fido
-
- Actually at least Fogh Sails made reachers from fairly light cloth, such
- that on a close reach or beam reach you carried them double ply and on a run
- and very broad reach you spread the two sides on opposite sides. It was
- quite practical.
-
- - Lauri Tarkkonen
-