drifter vs yankee on CD27

[bill chapple]

I currently have a decksweeper jenny on my CD27 that I use in lighter winds instead of the jib. I have been thinking of getting a high clewed jenny ('yankee'), perhaps 120% or 130%, to use in lighter winds as I would like to see what is ahead of me. At the Newport boat show, a sail maker mentioned a nylon drifter made of 1.5 oz nylon with a 180% overlap. It requires a second halyard but is not hanked on so you can keep your roller furler jib and use the drifter until the wind picks up. I notice the Pardeys talk about using a drifter 150% for light air sailing. Has anyone had experience with these alternatives
Bill Chapple



chapple@predator.pnb.uconn.edu

[john doyle]

I currently have a decksweeper jenny on my CD27 that I use in lighter winds instead of the jib. I have been thinking of getting a high clewed jenny ('yankee'), perhaps 120% or 130%, to use in lighter winds as I would like to see what is ahead of me. At the Newport boat show, a sail maker mentioned a nylon drifter made of 1.5 oz nylon with a 180% overlap. It requires a second halyard but is not hanked on so you can keep your roller furler jib and use the drifter until the wind picks up. I notice the Pardeys talk about using a drifter 150% for light air sailing. Has anyone had experience with these alternatives
Bill Chapple

A jib that doesn't hank on or go in a furler will not allow you to point more than between a broad reach & beam reach. A good 150% 4 1/2 ounce genoa with the foot cut hight enough to allow visibility will be good off the wind & close hauled. Remember where the Pardey's sailed & how much time they had compared to our weekend & vacation sailing. Before good roller furling, most boats had a 150, 120 to 130, maybe a 110 & a working jib. Offshore boats would carry at least a storm jib. A mainsail without at least 2 reefs was not seen much. The only time I got wet changing jibs offshore was in a race, otherwise we turned off the wind to keep the foredeck dry & comfortable.
john
cd31 #18 bonnie blue



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[Warren Kaplan]

I currently have a decksweeper jenny on my CD27 that I use in lighter winds instead of the jib. I have been thinking of getting a high clewed jenny ('yankee'), perhaps 120% or 130%, to use in lighter winds as I would like to see what is ahead of me. At the Newport boat show, a sail maker mentioned a nylon drifter made of 1.5 oz nylon with a 180% overlap. It requires a second halyard but is not hanked on so you can keep your roller furler jib and use the drifter until the wind picks up. I notice the Pardeys talk about using a drifter 150% for light air sailing. Has anyone had experience with these alternatives
Bill Chapple

Bill,
I got a brand new high cut 110% genny for my CD27 last year from Doyle Sails (Long Island Loft). I had it made up to be roller furling, as I got a brand new Furlex installed at the same time. I also did not like having to stand on my head to see under a deck sweeping genny so I got myself the 110% high cut. Sailmaker said its "almost" like a yankee. If you are sailing a majority of the time in light air, it does take a while to get up to speed as opposed to the big genny. I a decent breeze (10+ knots) she gets up to hull speed quickly. But you still have the big genny for light air, right. I'm very happy with the sail

Warren Kaplan
S/V Sine Qua Non
CD27 #166 (1980)



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[Bob Loewenstein]

I recently got a high cut 150 (actually 147) genoa for our CD32. I'm very happy with its performance. We had a 135 genoa also cut high prior to the new sail and what a difference! Of course the older sail was older and had been cut down from a 150. Visibility is no problem and the sail reefs nicely (foam at the luff) holding a reasonable shape.

Bob