What are you using for a Head Sail

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What are you running for a Head Sail?

[ronacarme]

1. 25 sq ft storm jib
2. Stock X jib (131 sq ft ?)
3. 200sq ft nylon drifter
4. 350 sq ft stock X spinnaker

1 and 3 are leftovers from my old Venture 17 and Mac 26D resp., but both are regularly used on the X. All are hank-ons....no furler here.

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Now that's sail inventory...
Dik...

[mark,97x]

went out and bought a hank on factory jib in 2004,put the furler and jib and gennie in the shed,seems much easier to trailer and rig,have a downhaul and jib and main halyards led to cockpit

[Terry Chiccino]

Winds are a steady 15 to 25 knots in the afternoons on Monterey Bay (CA) in the summer, don't need a genoa on this tender boat!

[baldbaby2000]

I also have a jib but usually stick with the Genny and just furl it if the wind comes up. It's a hassle to change on the water.

[Andy26M]

What I really want is a "solent stay" - an inner forestay which connects to the mast very near the regular forestay, and connects to the deck just behind the regular forestay. This provides a way to use a hank-on sail at the same time you keep the genoa roller-furled. When not in use, the solent stay is disconnected from the deck fitting at the bow and re-attached to a deck fitting on one side near the upper shroud, where it will not impede the tacking of the genoa.

This would allow keeping the convenience of the roller-furled 150 genoa for most of the time, but being able to hank on a 100 jib for heavier air or beating upwind when you really need it.

- AndyS