Sails and Mast Furniture

Previous entries describe Rose's sail plan and the standing and running rigging configuration. The design of  each has changed, not dramatically, but enough to warrant an update. These modifications will insure that tackle runs free and leads are fair.

The staysail will hank to the forestay and the halyard will be rove to a single block. With a sway hook on deck there should be no need for more than one block. The free flying jibsails, yankee and genoa, will set on a bowsprit traveller and a Colligo luff line furler. The Colligo furler has its own  two part purchase block on the upper swivel. However, a two part purchase won't provide enough power to get 1200 lbs of tension on the jib luff. A properly sized self-tailing winch will be mounted on the port side of the mast to supplement the 2 to 1 purchase.

I will only have two jibs in my sail inventory, a yankee and a full working jib (110 genoa).  The staysail will have one reef point.   The main, staysail, genoa and yankee will be made from 7 oz clipper cloth. The two jibs will be white and the main and staysail cream colored. The drifter and  the topsail will be cut from 4 oz light blue nylon.