I also use the same sheets for all three, but not having had
much chance to really play around with the genoa yet, I have
concentrated entirely on the lapper and jib. Thus, I run mine
inside the shrouds. I need to repair some rivets in my genoa
track, anyway, and so am leery of using those blocks right now.
The one time I did try the genoa, I had to run the sheets outside
the shrouds.
> I use the genoa almost exclusively but did get a chance at Tahe to
> experiment with the lapper. Though I still don't like the sail, I did
> discover that it is possible to narrow the sheeting angle by
> "barber-hauling" the headsail clew in bu tensioning the windward sheet.
> Surprisingly, ths works for the lapper as well as one would expect it to
> for the jib. So, sheeting outside the shrouds allows both possibilities.
This makes sense to me, sorta, so once I get the genoa track repaired,
I'll probably experiment with using just the outside runs. However...
> Frankly, the fact that the WWP19 sails relatively poorly when pinched
> would seem
> to mitie against ever needing he really close sheeting angles. Free her up
> and she'll perform better.
Could you expand on this a little for me? I think I know what you're
saying here, but I originally learned to sail with tight sails, and
so if I run the lapper with sheets outside the shrouds, I can't pull
the lapper as tight as if I run them inside the shrouds. I assume too
that you're saying the WWP19 sails better much further off the wind
than I've been sailing, and that would, to me, indicate the need to
pull the sails in even more, again a problem with the sheets outside
the shrouds. (I'm pretty sure now that I misunderstand what pinched
means.)
Bill B.
P-19 #454 "Dream Catcher"
Nampa, ID