New Sails

Our new sails are here from Port Townsend Sails and our old sails are in consignment. Our friend Matt helped Geralyn bend on the genoa while I was trying to figure out how to remove the broken tap from the boom. This genoa is smaller than our old genoa. This one is 120%. 100%, being from the headstay to the mast, the sail goes past the mast 20%. Our old genoa was 135%, and didn't have the luff foam, which gave it a funny and not very efficient shape when reefed. The main is drastically different in that it is not integrated with the stackpack and lazy jacks. With this new setup, the mainsail, lazy jacks and possibly stackpack, will be independent of each other. Also, our old mainsail had three reef points. Our new main has only two, but they are deeper reefs, so that the second reef is where the old third reef would have been. We like this better because the old third reef had to be set from the mast. Possibly the last place you want to be when you're setting the third reef. Now we can set reef 1 & 2 from the cockpit. Another big difference is that our new main is loose-footed, so the foot is not attached to the boom. Can't wait to get the lazy jacks installed, so we can go for a test sail. We tried dowsing the sail without lazy jacks and it took Geralyn and I 15 minutes to flake the sail.