Typhoon main-reef points?

[Jim Boudrot]

I recently bought a Typhoon without sails. The boom has roller reefing built in. Is their any reason why I should have the sail maker put reef points in the main? Cunningham? 5 or 6 oz? Is a 135% headsail about right? Thank you in advance for your comments.



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[Bob Van Eck]

I recently bought a Typhoon without sails. The boom has roller reefing built in. Is their any reason why I should have the sail maker put reef points in the main? Cunningham? 5 or 6 oz? Is a 135% headsail about right? Thank you in advance for your comments.

I have found that with reef points give you a much better sail shape than the roller reefing. The cunningham is very useful to adjust the shape of the sail under various wind conditions. The working jib is a 110% and I have a 150% and a 140% that I use under various conditions of wind and seas. Be sure to instal a vang for off the wind sailing.



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[Bruce Bett]

Many years ago shortly after my father got his Cape Dory 25 we were sailing out on Lake Huron and decided to try the roller reefing. Now I want you to visualise this. One of us at the tiller luffing the boat up into the wind, and the other standing in the cockpit trying to reef the main. The boat is bouncing around a good deal because the waves are up a bit. The man doing the reefing is trying to pull the boom backwards and twist it. If the sail is full it's pulling forward if not the boom is swinging with the wave action. We gave it up as unworkable. I strongly recomend that you ask your sailmaker to give you two sets of reef points and that you rig your boat for jiffy reefing. It is MUCH better than the above.

Bruce Bett
Sostenuto
CD 25 #496

I recently bought a Typhoon without sails. The boom has roller reefing built in. Is their any reason why I should have the sail maker put reef points in the main? Cunningham? 5 or 6 oz? Is a 135% headsail about right? Thank you in advance for your comments.

Bettb@macomb.cc.mi.us

[Marino Curati]

I just bought a 5.5 oz main and had one deep reef point put in. The roller reefing doesn't work very well; its especially bad because you can't have a boom vang. Without a vang, the boom flies all over the place when off the wind. You don't need a cunningham because there should be a downhaul attached to the bottom of the boom which is to be attached to a cleat mounted toward the base of the mast.

Go with a 110% jib and no less than a 155% genoa. If your boat is stock, the genoa track isn't very long; you won't have enough track to move the lead far enough forward in order to properly trim a shorter genoa. In addition, the Ty is a heavy boat and you need have as much sail are as possible in normal conditions.

Good Luck,

Marino Curati
Ty #74 Snug
Cleveland



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