Roller Furling Headsail Installation

[Roy Vollmer]

My Hunter 27 (1983) has a low forward bow pulpit with a cross brace that houses a stainless steel mounting plate for the port/starboard running light. This assemblyrestricts the amount of space needed to install roller furling close to the headstay deckmount.What is the best solution for this condition? I do not wish to replace or modify the bow pulpit.Do I need an extension from the headstay mount to the roller furling to get above the cross brace ? in which case I loose a lot of sail area along the foot.What manufacturer would you recommend?What headsail size maximum would you recommend - 155, or 180?Thanks for any information you can supply to this request.Roy

 

[Ed Schenck]

No deck sweeper?

The few pictures that I could find all look to have the furling drum well off the deck. I'll check a couple when I go to the marina tomorrow. My own is that way but it's a cutter with a high cut yankee so doesn't matter.

 

[Randy]

ROLLER FURLER HEADSAIL INSTALLATION

I have a 79-27' Hunter. I wanted to be able to work my anchor on deck without banging the furler, so I added extensions from the deck. The roller furler I use and recommend is the Pro-furl. It has an open drum which enables you to make any ajustments to the line if needed and when the wind pipes up you can use a winch to help furl in the sail when beating into the wind without any damage to the system. As far as what size sail you should use depends on what kind of sailing you are going to do, remember the larger the headsail the more you will have around the headstay when you furl it to shorten the sail. I use a 135 Bi Radial which I find is good in light air and when the wind pipes up I can furl it down to almost 90% with out falling to far off of the wind. Hope this helps. Randy