boom jib

[Jim Lant]

I'm looking at a 28 foot CD and noticed the jib has a boom. What is the purpose of a boom jib?????



fishmon@theaquarist.com

[Stan]

It makes the working jib self-tending when you tack while beating into the wind. Many, if not most, CD 28s have had this rig removed in favor of a roller furling genoa. If the boat you are looking at does not have roller furling, the price you mentioned in your earlier post may be a little rich.



smw@capecod.net

[Larry DeMers]

The boom equipped CD28 will have advantges over a loose-footed or roller furled Jib in reaching and running, and to some extent, in beating also. The clew is held at a fixed distance from the luff by the boom, so when you are running, wing on wing, or beating, the shape of the sail is easier to regulate and hold. Draft control is easier to maintain also, when beating.

But all things on boats are a compromise of some sort. The hanked on sail is a bit of work to reef or change up or down in size, and the sail now needs stowing somewhere. That big boom is a deck-sweeper, and of concern for crew going forward. So Roller/Reefing is usually installed, which solves a few problems, adds some convenience, but you lose a bit of performance. Compromise.

I am surprisd that Cape Dory only offered the CD28 as a sloop rig..while on the CD30, the cutter rig was most popular, followed by the ketch. I do not believe I have ever seen a CD30 as a sloop (by design).

Cheers!

Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
Cape Dory 30 ~~Sailing Lake Superior -9 wks to launch~~

I'm looking at a 28 foot CD and noticed the jib has a boom. What is the purpose of a boom jib?????

demers@sgi.com

[Ken Coit]

Jim,

Others have posted advantages and disadvantages of booms on the foresails. We certainly agree that being on the foredeck when the boom is free to swing is not a good idea. However, on Parfait, our CD36 cutter, the staysail has both a boom and roller furling, so don't think of them as necessarily mutually exclusive.

Ken

I'm looking at a 28 foot CD and noticed the jib has a boom. What is the purpose of a boom jib?????

parfait@nc.rr.com

[Neil Gordon]

>>Many, if not most, CD 28s have had this rig removed in favor of a roller furling genoa.<<

Although with an inner detachable forestay, you can have both. That's the setup on LIQUIDITY, although the jib boom is there more for tradition than anything else... it's just too easy to keep using the genoa on the furler. <g>

>>If the boat you are looking at does not have roller furling, the price you mentioned in your earlier post may be a little rich.<<

True. I suggest that if he needs some guidance on the cost of roller a furler, if he has to negotiate a better price, this is a good place to ask.


Regards, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167



neil@nrgordon.com

[Neil Gordon]

>>The boom equipped CD28 will have advantges over a loose-footed or roller furled Jib in reaching and running, ...<<

How about in combination with a genoa... each poled out, for straight downwind work? I've thought about it, but never had occasion to try it.


Regards, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167



neil@nrgordon.com

[Bruce Bett]

Neil:

That should work. My brother and I tried a similar trick last summer when we got caught in a light following breeze while making for the De tour passage at the north end of Lake Huron. We had a drifter with an internal stay. We dropped the main and set the drifter on one side and the jenny on the other. As I recall we poled the drifter out with a snatch block attached to the end of the boom. It worked great until the breeze dropped to where the drifter wouldn't draw and we fired up the stinker.

Bruce

>>The boom equipped CD28 will have advantges over a loose-footed or roller furled Jib in reaching and running, ...<<

How about in combination with a genoa... each poled out, for straight downwind work? I've thought about it, but never had occasion to try it.


Regards, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167

bettb@macomb.cc.mi.us

[Lyn Heiges]

Our CD28, MOON CHILD, has the club-footed jib which is very nice when single handing her. I had a Shaffer Roller Furling Genoa on a previous boat and as expected, it jammed at the most inopportune times. It worked like a windowshade, but the line easily wraps over itself if the wind is flopping the genoa around. I like the simple Yankee Jib/club-footed jib. The sail is also a more standard sail and not the compromise of the roller rig.

For the present and through almost 17 years of CD ownership, I will keep the jib with the boom!

Lyn Heiges
CD28 MOON CHILD
St. Pete Beach, Florida

I'm looking at a 28 foot CD and noticed the jib has a boom. What is the purpose of a boom jib?????

LynHeiges@cs.com