Dragonfly 800 US206 was mine for ten years. Wonderful boat.The first day we took delivery, loaded up with wife and two small boys, powered from the marina into San Francisco Bay, set sail and headed for Angel Island showing 19 knots.
I've just bought my new main from your Turkey branch (MobyMarine)... it's in shipping stage now, I hope it's as good as the previous one (2013)... I'm planing my roundtrip cruise from eastern med to caribean for 2025-26 season and couldn't decide what to buy, then did not order the main for now, current Genoa is 2015 and still works good... She is a Bavaria 38 Cruiser from 2009 btw... I wonder that if I need any kind of additional hardware for this yankee and if it's ok for solo passage or not? I currently have 4 winches onboard, 8 spinlocks around the main winches (all vacant), 2 empty rollers and 2 cleats near the genoa winches... I've got no bowspirits in the boat but two eyebolts at the edge of the anchorlocker... Selden in mast furling system installed, a spinnaker halyard, no poles for now, plenty of rings mounted around the foredeck... is this ok for this system?
Husker tydeligt den første udviklings sejlads i 1991 med nye test sejl på HR-39 , kun 3 dage efter at Christoph Rassy havde besøgt Elvstrøm Sails i Aabenraa, kun det bedste blev accepteret. Det var starten på et godt langt samarbejde 👍
Hi this looks very interesting. It's a pain to keep putting away the code zero. Is it heavier becasue of the sun/UV strip? What are the compromises versus a code zero with no UV protection please?
I understood that this vertical battens makes the furling operation easier and less prone to jamming, right? But on the other hand this vertical battens makes lowering the sail an almost impossible operation in an emergency at sea, right? Don´t you think this is too big a risk? What do you suggest doing if such a sail needs to be lowered on an emergency?
you're failing to understand how the system works... the sail doesn't lower, it physically does not lower, it doesn't go up and down.. in an emergency, if your electrical system goes out you simply pull it in by hand/winch (and if you reefing last minute you doing something wrong imo, outside of an unpredictable situation)... the sail goes in and out, not up and down. it's a mast furling system, not a boom furling nor a 'traditional' halyard run atop the mast solution. mast furling solutions are more akin to forward sail furling systems if that's easier for you to comprehend/envision. hope that explanation helps you. -so that's why vertical battens make sense in the first place, they are actually a safer and superior improvement for mast furling solutions, due to the way the entire system operates.
@@Mars21681 I understand how the system works, what I meant is that in an emergency, if the sail cannot be furled due to jamming, for example, the situation can deteriorate quickly, especially if sea and wind conditions are critical. If the sail did not have vertical battens, it could be pulled out and dropped over the boom.
@@BRuas9080you're not understanding how that system works unfortunately. It will come down to you actually looking into the system more thoroughly without any preconceived notions. you have the internet at your disposal presumably and the experiences of others, you can also experience yourself and check things out possibly in person.
@@BRuas9080 it works quite well and it can be made to manually release. In mast furling has come a long way. And Selden SMF is the way forward for me. The vertical batten Sail elvstrom is offering is what I'm considering and possibly going to their shop in Denmark in the next week.
That's the good old bollejan (aka booster, aka tradewinds sail) used by traditional fishermen in Holland centuries ago and by yachties in the 70s (those mad of spinnaker fabric). It seems that because of its too high rating in competition, sailmakers stopped the production of this kind of double gennaker. To a few old sea dogs I used to meet, it's the ultimate sail for ocean passages in the trades. And yes it can be folded for reaching or in 4 time stronger winds (half the surface area, twice the material and the sheets)
Two hints: 1) Wear gloves when handling the glassfiber rods! 2) When the steel pin does not want to go completely through: Rotate glasfiber and carbonfiber rods by 180 degree to each other.
You hAve a beautiful facility! I have a sobstad P- 15 sail in brand new condition still in its duffel. I have no use for it. Its a beautiful sail, and it seems a waste for nobody to use it. Do you have any idea how much the value of it is? Thank you so much if you could tell me that. Have a wonderful day.
Interesting. Any experience how the jib will reef with the full vertical battens? Does it help keeping the shape when furled, and does it prevent the damaging wrinkles in the sail? I would really like to see, how it works. All the best Per
Although it is in German and i didn't understand half of it but this by far the best video i have ever come across on the internet to display the different controls of the mainsail and how they affect the sail shape! I wish they can dub this in English ;)
Hi Jose - you are right not too many people know Danish :-) But this is a video that one of our Danish Customers made. I hope any of the other videos makes sense you. Thank you for your feedback.
