Re: Balancing the helm when reefing -- Lapper and Storm Jib!

From: Rye Gewalt (ryeg@vais.net)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 14:37:26 PST


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You wind one sail on counter clockwise and the other one clockwise. Then one
sail appears just after the other one is wound up. The actual rolling process
is difficult to explain, but if anybody can explain it Judy can.

Rye

Alan Dimson-Doyle wrote:

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> Bruce, that is what I kind of thought the CDI was all about, but the way
> Judy worded her message made me think that she had both a lapper and her
> custom made storm jib on the CDI. In her message to Geoff she says, "We use
> both the lapper and the storm jib on our CDI" and later on compares Chris'
> rigging with her "stormsail and first reef." There was another place (which
> I cannot not find at the moment where she makes mention of her custom-made
> storm jib. So I thought she has two separate foresails. Can the CDI be
> easily rigged with a different sail before leave the dock to accommodate
> different conditions? Am I reading too much into what Judy is saying here?
> I tend to make things more complex than necessary. Thanks for your input.
> Alan
> P-19 "Molly Fay"
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