Storm Jib
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Trying to be helpful here. I assume you have a furler on the headstay. Do you have an inner forestay? Otherwise, how would you set a storm jib/staysail? Agreeing with gleason about size, although I think your I might be closer to 55. That's a pretty big boat.
Correct Storm Sail size
Alan,
Storm sails:
It’s really important to understand that the size of storm sails has been dictated by offshore racing rules and gives you a ‘maximum’ area allowed. This does not take into account cruisers, boat types, sailors.
I will say from personal experience that the maximum area under the rule is to be too BIG in heavy air, heave too conditions. As a sailmaker, I generally make our storm sails about 25% smaller than the maximum area.
For the 461 the ‘max’ storm jib area would be around 149sqft. I would make it more in the 110-115sqft area.
The ‘max’ luff would be 35.5’
IG is: 54.52 on the 461
The area rules are:
Storm jib luff length: [FONT="]0.65 * IG2[/FONT]
Storm jib area:[FONT="] 0.05*IG2[/FONT][FONT="]\[/FONT]
Bob Pattison
Neil Pryde Sails Int.
Alan,
Storm sails:
It’s really important to understand that the size of storm sails has been dictated by offshore racing rules and gives you a ‘maximum’ area allowed. This does not take into account cruisers, boat types, sailors.
I will say from personal experience that the maximum area under the rule is to be too BIG in heavy air, heave too conditions. As a sailmaker, I generally make our storm sails about 25% smaller than the maximum area.
For the 461 the ‘max’ storm jib area would be around 149sqft. I would make it more in the 110-115sqft area.
The ‘max’ luff would be 35.5’
IG is: 54.52 on the 461
The area rules are:
Storm jib luff length: [FONT="]0.65 * IG2[/FONT]
Storm jib area:[FONT="] 0.05*IG2[/FONT][FONT="]\[/FONT]
Bob Pattison
Neil Pryde Sails Int.