Nineteen (correction)
The lapper is a 120% (typo). Its clew is high so it still trims to the genoa track. It's essentially a #2. No track for a blade so I don't have one. Blades trim from a track inboard of the shrouds and are fastest beating in higher winds. Modern racers must have one to be competitive. I was just quoting what's written on the bags. Following is an explanation of the others: The "drifter" is a nylon (spinnaker cloth) genoa with a loose luff and luff tensioning tackle at the tack. The luff is really stretchy, about 1 1/2 foot tensioning range. Useful in calm up to about two knots wind. It has removable plastic carabiner style hanks (5) so it can be used double headsail downwind. The "mule" is a heavy partial hoist genoa. It has reef points above the foot and second tack and clew rings, which reef it to about 110%, but then all the sail on the deck catches water, and it becomes a *very* partial hoist sail, kinda useless reefed. The staysails tack either on a center track on the foredeck or to the foredeck rail when broad reaching or running. The tack passes through a hole in the bottom of the bag so you just hoist them out of the bag and stuff them back in the bag as they come down. They're both light Dacron. They're meant to fly inside the spinnaker at certain wind angles and speeds. The "banana staysail" is bigger, has short battens sewn into the sail and is best when tight reaching in light-moderate winds. As the wind goes aft the sheeting point moves too far outboard and it cannot be used. The bag is shaped like a banana. The "tallboy staysail" is much narrower, can be flown from a reach to dead downwind, when it's tacked across the foredeck with the sheeting point at the same position on the other side of the foredeck. It also can be used with the lapper when reaching as a double headsail setup. And when there's no wind and a leftover chop it can be tacked to the stemhead and sheeted both sides at the mast to decrease rolling. The "blooper" is a standard racing sail from the seventies, nylon, usually flown under the main in windy conditions with a spinnaker dead downwind to balance the sailplan laterally so the boat doesn't roll as much, ostensibly to prevent broaching. Modern boats aren't so broach sensitive, so the sail is no longer popular. Also can be used as a double headsail setup downwind, or alone, even without the main for fun. Most of the specialty sails are for light air, where you could go faster with the engine. But I have just as much fun doing two knots when boats around me are motoring or bobbing. Any sails hoisted beyond the main-genoa-spinnaker standard are good for only 1/4 to 1/2 knot more speed at best, though. Here's a picture of the drifter hard at work, about 1/4 knot boatspeed.
I don't carry every sail I own on the boat all the time. A good roller genoa, the main, and a spinnaker most days. For passages I make sure the Blade is on board as well as both chutes.
