[MHml] ISAF Multihull Offshore Regs

[Bradford Johanson]

I singlehand my Formula 40 trimaran along the coast of Maine and I have just
had a third reef added to the mainsail and ordered a heavy weather jib of
150 sq ft.
One to many times I have been down the coast and needed to get home or
somewhere else on a very blustery day.

With all the weather related stories at the start (near shore) of all the
transatlantic and round the world races it seems imprudent to mimimise the
need to heavy weather preparations.

These regs exist because too many of us, my self included, do not put
sufficient forthought into how we will handle unusual weather near shor or
offshore.

On Dec 28, 2007 5:53 PM, Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:

>
>
> >   I also need a heavy weather jib in addition to my robust roller
> > reefing jib, the fact that I have no way of hoisting it 'independent
> > of any luff-groove device' isn't considered.
>
> Having some means to hoist a jib if your roller reefing is damaged seems
> sensible. Can you not hoist a storm jib on a spinnaker halyard, for
> example?
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
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