O'Day 25 Roller Furling??

[sPk]

O'Day 25 Roller Furling 135 or 150??

I am thinking of upgrading from the original (I think) hank on headsails to roller furling on my 1980 O'Day 25 c/b.

Since my sails are old, I am not considering having them modified.
If I opt to upgrade, I can either go with a 135 or 150 "Coastal Sail" with luff pad from SailWarehouse (http://thesailwarehouse.com/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?page=storeframe.html&cart_id= ). I sail in the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior so conditions are quite variable. I currently have a 100 Jib, 150 Genoa. I think I use the jib about 60% and Genoa 40% of the time. Anyone have any suggestions as which size they prefer (135 vs. 150)?

I was thinking of choosing the CDI Flexifurler FF4 and upgrading to ball bearings.

I have a new hank on Storm Jib, can this still be used with the CDI FF4?

How hard is the install? Any gotcha's? Any other advice?

 

[Carver13014]

sPk,

I bought a used FF6 furler for my 25 last year and had a 135 built at the local Doyle sail loft this spring. The sailmaker suggested not to go with the 150 as it's a bit big for the boat. I've had a great time sailing with the 135 this year. It does great with just that sail. He built it so it could be reefed as low as a 105% and put hash marks on the sail at 10% intervals to give a gage on how much it's reefed. I have a 150 hank on that i used very infrequently but that was usually based more on keeping the boat comfortable for passengers. The boat can handle the 150, but it's probably not entirely necessary to have a sail that big.

The only difference between the FF4 and FF6 is the halyard. The fuler extrusion is the same on both. Mine was used when i got it but i was fortunate enough that it has the BB upgrade. I'd imagine it's well worth it but can't give a hands on comparison.

I purchased a new forestay as i didn't know how old my original was and wanted to be sure there was no chance for failure. Install is pretty simple. When i stepped the mast, it was a bit of a struggle to get the clevis pin into the chainplate since i had the forestay length set before stepping. Just be sure that the jaw at the base is long enough to reach the hole on the chainplate. That was the only problem i ran into.

Good luck!

Greg

 

[RichBone]

If you are using your 150 much then I wonder if a 135 will be big enough.

Rich