[MHml] ISAF Multihull Offshore Regs

[Peter Lillywhite]

            Yes, I have no issue with storm jibs, see my last post.
 
                        Cheers Peter.
 
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[mailto:multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com] On Behalf Of Bradford
Johanson
Sent: 29 December 2007 00:41
To: Informed discussion of multihull issues
Subject: Re: [MHml] ISAF Multihull Offshore Regs
 
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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