2:1 Main Halyard
Hello, this is my first post in this forum.
I have a lot of trouble hoisting my roller furled Mainsail on my C-31 trimaran. The mainsail has full length battens, and a "square top" headboard. I replaced the block on the mast base with a Harken Ball-bearing model, but that didn't help much. I had the bolt rope cover changed by Calvert Sails to something slicker than the original UK cover. That was better but it still is tight and seems to want to bind up; especially when lowering it. If I spray it with lubricant like Sail-Lube, it works pretty well, but only for one or two hoists. I added a couple blocks to the Topping Lift, to make adjustments easier. I try to have the boom slightly raised above horizontal, like I did with my old F-27 (Hull #58), which seems to work the best. I have even placed a flat plastic "bushing" cut from a plastic ice cream lid, on the mast axle to stop any binding from the sail itself.
Since I sail solo most of the time, I don't have anyone to unroll the sail for me when hoisting.
Dave Calvert (Calvert Sails- Florida) said he hears about this a lot from other F-31/C-31 owners, and said that I could try a 2:1 halyard; or go to a slide system and abandon roller furling altogether. I really like the roller furling, I've always thought it was one of Corsair's best systems. I think I might try the 2:1 halyard, as my original halyard is chaffed at the splice by the original mainsail (cut too long). I assume that original halyard is one of the High-Tech Spectra, T-900, etc., lines?
Has anybody had good luck with a 2:1 main halyard system with a bolt-rope luff?
Sorry about the length of this post!
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