genoa

I have a Morgan 41 Out Island Ketch and I was sailing yesterday and noticed I was getting pretty bad weather helm. Apparent wind was 7-8kt, SOG was 4kt average, 130-140° AWA off my starboard, gusting up to 11kt, seas were 2-3ft@3-4sec coming from 160-170° off my port, heeling about 2-3°, 5°...

I am new to sailing and have only been sailing my (new to me) o'Day 23 for about a month (which with a full time job equates to about 4 times actually on the boat). I am still in the process of figuring out the running rigging for various parts of the boat. This past weekend, I used the...

I have this problem every year. I always figure it out and then forget- why is the job getting stuck? This is the highest I’ve gotten it up and something is clearly wrong.

I recently bought a 1979 O'Day 27 and so far love it. Sadly I have suffered a few sun-damage rips along the leech on my unknown age 150 Genoa which may be beyond repair (or cost prohibitive). I am pretty much an intermediate Lake Simcoe (Ontario) day sailor with weekly beer can races for fun...

I need to replace the genoa, but I´m having different measures of the actual sail, from the manual. Any help with that ? Should it be 100%, 110%, 150% ?

Noob here. Had a nasty tear in in our furling 135 genoa. Had it repaired, but it needs to go. Found an amazing deal on a brand new 135 genoa that was the original sail for a Hunter 27. The 'I' measurement is 2ft different, and I don't know if that's a deal breaker or not. Thoughts? Thanks for...