Posted by GregSeaHawk on
URL: https://forum.seahawk17.org.uk/Jib-furling-tp4024847p4024849.html

Hi Stuart,

Is your method of lowering the mast anything like mine, described here:
http://www.seahawk17.org.uk/owners-custom-sailing-tabernacle.php#inuse

As a Broads sailor there is no doubt in my mind that a hanked-on jib is preferable option by far. A fully extended genoa is a quite unwieldy sail for tacking up narrow rivers and you are likely to find your self failing to come about a lot of the time and when partially furled so it does not constantly wrap itself around the mast as you tack it becomes smaller and has a less efficient shape.

However, I recall that Phil Brown, swore by his Barton furling (not reefing) gear for the final approach to his swinging mooring on Windermere. The last half minute of this video shows his gear in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyonJhnPBp8