You can see it in the video when I have it uploaded. I also have a drifter, which must be like your 170. I haven't had light enough winds yet, nor the courage to fly it! I suspect it would require a crewman to walk it past the mast when tacking. The 120 is small enough to come over on its own. I also have blocks on my stern pulpit. It might be that when rigging the drifter, I might need to run the sheet back to those blocks, and then forward to my cam cleats. They swivel, and would swivel aft for that purpose. The blocks on the stern pulpit are for the spinnaker I have, but I don't have that quite rigged yet. For one thing I need to get a spinnaker pole! Soon. Daniel On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Robert Hall wrote:
Daniel, Very interesting posting , much appreciated. When you send the video could you possibly show where and how your fairleads and cleats are mounted on the cowlings? I have a 170 Genoa, but have not worked up enough guts to fly it . Merci. RTH.
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Rich Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 12:22 AM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: M_Boats: Sailing with the genoa on my M15
Montypals:
I rigged and sailed with my 120 genoa (I think that is the size) for the first time while on vacation recently. It was really interesting. First, because it goes beyond the mast, I rigged the sheets outside the shrouds, inside the lifeline stanchions, and to the fairlead track and cam cleat I have on my cowlings. They are fairly aft. This seems like the right way to rig this. This genoa is made of very light fabric, possibly nylon, and has wonderful brass hanks. They are much nicer than the plastic hanks. I was sailing in a lake that had light, but gusty winds. It took a bit of time to figure out how to sail with it, but I finally was able to tack well with it. The trick was to let the sheets loose when tacking, and let the wind pull the thing well over so it didn't hang up, and then trim it in.
Now, one thing I noticed was that with big gusts of 10-12 knots, I had so much less weather helm, and much more control. More head sail would naturally reduce weather helm, but I figured it would just increase heeling. The Monty heels so nicely, that more sail forward actually seems to help! Any thoughts on this?
I will have some video of the genoa, and of my new TillerClutch posted soon.
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