Question about Jib on a H22

[drumbeater]

Another question from our first use of the boat last week.

Our jib keeps getting hung up on the bow pulpit when tacking. I wondered if there supposed to be a piece of cable between the snap shackle and the sail. Something to let it up a couple of feet to clear the bow pulpit. There is extra room at the top of the front stay for the sail to go further up.

The storm jib has something like this on it.

John

 

[peptobysmol]

The jib hangs over the life lines on the H23 as well.

 

[inarathree]

Nope thats how it is. How much does it hang?

 

[jassprag]

I always had a piece of line at the bottom of the jib so I could haul it all the way up. I just bought my Hunter 22 last fall and haven't got it wet yet and the sail is being repaired {mouse holes}. I had a Helsen 22 before.

 

[drumbeater]

The amount of sail from the deck to the top of the bow pulpit hangs up. It mostly just lays across the bow pulpit and occaisionally will get caught up in the "drop loop" that holds then mast when trailering.

I was thinking about making up a piece of ss cable with some swaged ends for extending it up.

 

[Merlin Clark]

A previous owner of my boat left a couple of short pennants made up with SS wire and a regular shackle on one end and a spinnaker type snap shackle on the other. I attach the regular shackle to the snap shackle on the bow fitting and the spinnaker shackle to the sails tack grommet.
This gets the sail up off the deck and I can see under the foot with no problem. Works well for me.
You could probably make a loop out of a piece of scrap line (threaded through the tack grommet) to try it out before spending the dough to make one up.

 

[inarathree]

I was watching how I was tacking today while out sailing today. *I had the same problem when I moved from a club 27' Catalina to my own H22. *On the Catalina I would let the jib go when beginning to tack, so that's what I did when I first started sailing the 22. I also got my jib stuck on the same "u" part of the bow rail. I took a trick from my Hobie days... Try letting the bow come across the wind before letting the jib go. I think the jib on the 22 is so light that the wind carries it forward, and getting stuck. *If you let the wind cross the bow, then let it go, the wind will just force the clew across, keeping the whole jib behind the tack.

Hope this helps.

I also took pics of close hauled and a beam reach, so you can see that it's not all perfect. I can post those if you like.