Hi Peter,
Sounds like a very workable option. We have 100% and 145% roller reefing headsails on Spring Fever, plus a cruising chute and storm jib too.
The storm jib we've never used and the cruisng chute is strictly 'light weather only' - if boat speed reaches 5 knots it comes down again and we use the genoa.
We found the same as yourself, that when the wind gets up to F6 or more, what's left out of the big genoa sets so badly that you can't get within 65 degrees of the wind, whilst the working jib even reefed is 10+ degrees better. We tend to hoist the 100%er at the beginning of the season (we're always happier to be under rather than over-canvassed until we've remembered how the big white cloth thingies work) and then switch it for the 145% genoa after about a month. To be honest we rarely switch back and forth between them, but that's more because we're fortunate enough to be able to wait another day or even week if the weather's rough. We have changed back on occassion, but it's invariably been whilst in port when we've been heading out on a long passage with a possibly worsening weather - the basis being once again that we'd rather be undercanvassed in the first instance and better suited if the winds do pick up.
pjacobs55 prjacobs@... wrote:
My Vega has only one jib, a 150% on a CDI furler. I'm going to get
another one as I find the 150 a bit much for some of the weather we get
around here (southern Vancouver Island, Juan de Fuca Strait).
My thoughts so far lean to a full-hoist 110% that can be reefed down
with the furler. Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Peter
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