Roller furling

stevebirch2002 · Jan 30, 2002

Hi

The Rotostay allows you to use your own sails as well so long as you
replace the sliders with a "bolt-rope" in the luff. Used quite extensively
in the UK.

Kind Reagrds Steve Birch VEga "Southern Comfort" V1703
At 10:25 30/01/02 +0100, you wrote:

stevebirch2002 · Jan 30, 2002

Hi

The luff has a rope sewed into it and the aluminium slider has a thin slot
that the sail siled into. Difficult to explain in words!

Steve B
At 13:15 30/01/02 +0100, you wrote:

hielke007 · Jan 30, 2002

Hello All,
just bought the February issue of Practical Boat Owner as lunchtime reading.

The British Vega Association made it to the editorial "Waiting for the tide"
Nice job!
Hielke
V1033 Drivfjäder
Holland

stevebirch2002 · Jan 30, 2002

Hi All

We are just too famous now at te VAGB, all publicity is good publicity.

Steve VAGB

At 13:24 30/01/02 +0100, you wrote:

dougpol1 · Nov 23, 2014

Hi All, I had some kind of Jiffy reefing on Sea legs and all the
hardware was in bad shape so I took it off to go back to roller furling
on the boom. A lot of Vegas are still using it. I had roller furling
on another boat and I think though not sure that the sail was cut up
about 8 inches on the leach end so the boom was higher on the aft end.
As I remember as you furl the sail the boom drops some on the aft end
but since it started out higher it never dropped enough to be a head
knocker. I am wondering if the original sails were cut high on the aft
end. A long ago frind of mine made the coment that a sailor sailng a
boat with roller furling can't sail it as well a one used to roller
furling if the first sailor is used to having reefing points. His
arguement was that they always reef too deep when using roller furling
and that rolling down more spoils the shape of the sail. It kind of
seems to me since I have a roller furling jib as well as main I can
shorten both very easily a small amount havering shortened sail a lot
with a very shallow reef in both. Rolling sails around the boom or head
stay changes it's shape and they becomes less efficient with a part of
the sail doing nothing. Because of that changed shape the effective sail
area is smaller less reef is required. I hope this makes sense and I am
curiouse to know what others think and especially those still using
roller furling on the boom. I suspect roller reefing has been around
longer in Europe so maybe it is used more there. The oldest one I know
of was on a German sloop that was built in the early 1920's and it
sailed quite well with a deep reef in it. I would like to recapture
that on My Vega. I suspect that roller furling was not excepted here in
the US as it was put on boats only as a way of cutting cost and nobody
knew how to use them anyway?? Doug

btfag0s · Nov 23, 2014

My original mainsail was a standard cut sail, and for roller reefing I just took a tuck before rolling.Another option is to roll in the sail bag to take up the slack, but I never found it's as effective (I suppose you could leave an old towel or similar); this has the advantage that the sail bag cord can double as the reefing strop if it's tough enough.Alisdair

zarzeckistephan · Nov 23, 2014

I have a roller furling main sail on my Albin Vega 27 as well.The all idea to have a clean rolled main sail is to keep the right angle when you roll up (end of the boom little over the goes neck)  Stephan  Sent from my iPadLe 23 nov. 2014 à 18:51, "Douglas Pollard dougpol2@... [AlbinVega]"<AlbinVega@yahoogroups.com> a écrit :

dougpol1 · Nov 23, 2014

I think I may have sent this post once? Anyway thanks for the reply
and your answer makes good sense. Doug
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newboldnoyes · Nov 24, 2014

I also liked & used my original roller furling main as well I thought it held a fine shape when furled but -as I age - in order to manage all lines from the cockpit we installed a jiffy reefing system & will run the main halyard back with a self tailing winch mounted onto the cabin sole? roof? deck? I don't like the baggy factor the jiffy reef system makes of the reefed mainsail on the boom nor all the extra lines but it makes my family feel better knowing I can reef my sail by myself without leaving the cockpit. I liked going forward to reef with the roller system in a good blow but it worried my children. I would have taken the fine little winches from the mast but they aren't self tailing & just aren't right to mount on the deck. We will be doing this this winter if we get a January thaw & if I can find a good winch ...from myphone nn

lewills30 · Nov 24, 2014

Hi all,I was looking at the lines running down the deck and the way the lines lay on the safety rail and it just looks messy. Could a guy or gal (lol…PC) mount a roller track up by the front of the mast and run the lines from that point? Then you would have a line from the winch on port and starboard all the time? It seems there is a cleaner way to slide the jib from side to side…any ideaers?Larry.Sent from Windows MailFrom: n4lbl alan.schulman@... [AlbinVega]Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎November‎ ‎24‎, ‎2014 ‎12‎:‎36‎ ‎PMTo: n4lbl alan.schulman@... [AlbinVega]
 

I also liked & used my original roller furling main as well I thought it held a fine shape when furled but -as I age - in order to manage all lines from the cockpit we installed a jiffy reefing system & will run the main halyard back with a self tailing winch mounted onto the cabin sole? roof? deck?  I don\'t like the baggy factor the jiffy reef system makes of the reefed mainsail on the boom nor all the extra lines but it makes my family feel better knowing I can reef my sail by myself without leaving the cockpit. I liked going forward to reef with the roller system in a good blow but it worried my children.  I would have taken the fine little winches from the mast but they aren\'t self tailing & just aren\'t right to mount on the deck. We will be doing this this winter if we get a January thaw & if I can find a good winch ...from myphone nn

newboldnoyes · Nov 25, 2014

In the beautifully designed Herreshoff S boats, the jib was controlled by one sheet running through a block which slid from side to side on a traveller as we called it, a bronze rod bent down at both ends & bolted to the foredeck, the sheet running back through leads to a winch & cleat on the cabin roof. The system worked well but the jib was not free footed as on the Vega but was relatively small & mounted on a boom.from myphone nn

winslowbuoy · Nov 25, 2014

The Vega is designed to sail using a large foresail and a comparatively smaller main. If you fit a self tacking jib you can only do it on a rail in front of the mast thus reducing its size. This will upset the balance of the boat unless you reef down the main at the same time but you will lose performance.regardsMike

stevebirch2002 · Feb 2, 2015

Hi All

After a winter of testing the first set of quality
Aluminium Windows have passed muster. Great quality, look brilliant and pretty
easy to install.

Been
tested over the winter and not a sign of a leak, first class windows and pretty
easy to fit. Sorry it has taken so long to source the next generation windows
but quality is paramount. The
inner frame screws directly into the outer frame with 10mm screws. No need to
drill any holes in the glassfibre around the gap. I had to do a small amount of
filing the fibreglass with a round headed file in one or two places, but that
was not a problem. The
sealant consists of a double sided sticky tape which compresses as the screws
are tightened. I questioned whether that was sufficient. The engineer said that
that is what they have used for many years and they have never had a single
complaint of leaks. They are a long established business, my crew George having
bought windows from them for his boat over 30 years ago! They supply windows to
the RNLI.Photos are available on
the Facebook Group for those interested.

Cheers

Steve
Birch

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pjacobs55 · Feb 2, 2015

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n4lbl · Feb 2, 2015

Steve:I can find two Facebook pages but no window references. The two are: Albin Vega - Local Business | Facebook and Albin Vega I not find the correct one or am I missing something??thanx,,, Alan

stevebirch2002 · Feb 2, 2015

Hi Alan

Have a look at Albin Vega Group on Facebook. Ask to
join if you are not a member and I will authenticate.

Cheers

Steve B
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Vega

Steve:

I can find
two Facebook pages but no window references. The two are:

Albin Vega - Local Business | Facebook
and

Albin Vega

Did I not
find the correct one or am I missing something??

thanx,,,

Alan

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n4lbl · Feb 2, 2015

Thanks

gurkin42 · Feb 3, 2015

Where can I get them and how much do they cost Steve. Cheers John