Thank you at the 5:20 mark. I bought a boat that came with a furling spinnaker (selden ). I didn’t know how to rig it, or use it. I set it up, and watched the furling mechanism at the tack spin, while the sail was not winding there at the tack. I thought, what the heck am I doing wrong and I gave up and put it away for the day. Chuckle. Wow. Now I understand
Thank You so much for this video! I bought a new furler and there are NO application instructions in the box or on their web site. You took all the guessing out of the set up. Thank You Jim
@Peter Lundh thanks for the video! I believe I have the exact same masthead on my 44' Dromor Athena and am thinking about getting a gennaker furler. Your setup seems to work well without the genoa installed, but I am worried the furled gennoa will clash with the furled gennaker. Does your system work with the genoa furled?
Looks nice at the pier. Furling and unfurling such a sail at sea would be rather tricky as someone said before. The best way to hoist a gennaker is a bowsprit. Removable bowsprits are easy to install and less expensive than furlers.
We just bought a top down furler and this video was invaluable, thank you! Can you possibly tell us what brand of double stanchion block was shown, as I've not seen anything like that in Australia and would like to import for our boat? Smooth seas Dave
I have this kind of furling on my geneoa and I frkn hate it. Always gets twirled in the forestay under a windy condition. Any load on the sail makes furling impossible. Snuffer makes way more sense on a sail like this. Imo
+Bill C I had the same problems with the furler , after one season I opted for the sock solution . True it is not as simple and handy as a furler , but it puts far less stress on the canvas .
