Jib size

[Tom11691]

Iown a 27ft Hunter with a roller furling jib of 110.What difference could there be with a 150,5oz wt.?I sail in New Jersey, Barnegat Bay.

 

[David11054]

150 or Asymetric?

In light air, the 150 will give you much improved performance while close hauled into the wind or on a close reach. As winds pick up you will have to furl it. Around 10-12 knots, furled to about 120, it will be big bellied enough to offer no advantage.Off the wind and particularly in a broad reach, or approaching a run, the 150 is simply the wrong shape! The real problem is that you can't sheet it far enough from the centerline to hold its proper shape.Once you are 60 degrees off the wind in light air, an asymetric spinnaker is a better sail through a broad reach. And, the asymetric can easily be doused in favor of the 110 if you want to head into the wind. The 110 with roller furling, and appropriate reefing of the main is a good sail up to 25 tp 30 knots. An asymetric is the right sail unless you plan to spend lots of time sailing closehauled in light air. The 150 is a required sail for racing around the bouys in light air. Since I'm a cruiser, I have a 110, and an asymetric. In an 8 hour leg cruising Lake Erie, the wind will change. An our shoal draft h27 won't make good much better than 60 degrees off the wind due to the leeway. So our set-up gives us the most powerful and flexible combinations for 90 percent of our sailing. And a light winds on the nose means that we would fire up the iron genny, even if we had a 150.DavidLady Lillie

 

[s sauer]

Headsail Choices

You really will be under powered in 10-15 knots wind speed with that 110, however rembering you have a shoal draft, The 150 is probably too much sail most days on Barnegat Bay. A roller furling 135-140 is probably the right sail for most conditions, but I'd keep that 110 on the boat for when the wind is in the 20's. Asymetricals are for reaching and running, so it limits your ability to change direction - maybe not the best choice for Barnegat as a primary sail.

 

[Warren M.]

Headsail size

I used to sail with a friend who had a mid-70's Cherubini Hunter 27 with a draft of around 4'3". We sail on the Chesapeake where the ambient winds are mostly light (but can get rough, i.e., over 20 kts, at times). He had a 110 and a 140 genoa. I can never remember sailing that boat with the 110 as we used the 140 all the time, and it was a very nice sailing boat. Since he didn't have furling, whenever the wind got too high for the full main and genoa, we either reefed the main (easy to do), or dropped one of the sails and sailed on one sail alone. So, I would recommend a 140, particularly since you have furling. If you buy a new one, have a foam luff added to help maintain sail shape when you roll some of it up.