If you did that, you'd be able to run a backstay, or rather, another
opposing forestay, on the other side, in order to keep forestay tension
on that jib. That should help a lot when beating.
While you could have a roller-furling sail on each side, it would
also be possible to have a single jib on a rotating mast. The question
is probably which would take less time to shunt: rotating the mast and
switching the jib sheets, or furling one foresail then unfurling the
opposite one.
In either case, the freestanding mast with huge jib would eliminate
compression loads on the structure, keeping some of the "keep it light"
harryproa philosophy intact. The mast itself would have to be
redesigned, though, both to handle the larger moment at the boom as
well as the compression from the boom stays.
- Mike
Doug Haines wrote:
I think you'd be better off taking the mast straight up out of the hull and putting a boom out in front for the jib. Smae as harry's but boom only out front. There you have only fdiffrence frim standard rig is a big jib with no main and then see what diffrence is.
Havng usedonly the schooner mainsails I look forward to trying an easy/ballecstron rig some day.
BTW I found someoene who has given me a iwndsurfer with its rig to put onto harriette. It looks a bit small and I see a lot of people (grown ups ) wanting to use this craft. So hopfully it pushes (or is that pulls) along OK.
Seriously - how many of these are going to be used only by kids!
Doug
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