Hoisting an Alternate Sail on a Furling Mast

Sep 22, 2021
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Hunter 41AC 0 Portland, OR
I was reading through the manual for the Selden furling mast on our H41DS and noted that it says:

"The mast extrusion has an additional luff groove for a storm trysail or spare main. In an emergency, even a foresail with rope luff could be hoisted."

The attached scan from the manual depicts the cross section of the mast with the additional luff groove at the bottom.

SeldenFurlingMast.jpg

I would be interested to hear from anyone that has utilized this luff groove.