2012年10月11日 · A staysail is all about balancing and center of power for your boat. I love my staysail and find it's my most useful sail especially as a singlehander. Great for helping to balance and power with or without my monitor windvane. Use upwind, downwind, light winds and heavy winds Use instead of partial furling jib in heavy winds

2008年10月21日 · A reefed staysail and a trysail is good to 60 knots, which even passagemakers might see once in their travels, assuming they sail to the predicted conditions and times of year. Furlers can either fail or become uncontrollable, leading to a shredded sail.

2017年8月21日 · The staysail boom does help with the sail shape but I am wondering if that matters. The staysail is so small and produces minimum power at times compared to the main and jib that if I had a semi-good shape vs a good shape sail, not sure if I would see any differences. It helps more when it is combined with the yankee jib on a reach.

2020年10月10日 · For me they are almost the same thing but not really. the idea is of a very small, low to the deck, close the mast, non overlapping, almost as stiff as plywood and can handle any amount of wind, orange colored is a storm sail. the staysail on a furler can be the same except not as low to the deck when reefed, not as stiff a material and cannot handle as much …

2013年10月16日 · A too small staysail in those conditions, especially unduly flattened, is next to worthless except for downwind. If you start out with a larger staysail that's 'reef able ' - best of all possibilities, plus you have a lower 'moment of force' because the CE of the staysail is closer to the mast (than a jib/genoa). Tacking a staysail to the stem

2013年6月22日 · Again, the staysail would be too small to use on its own until the winds were in the high 20 knot or even low 30 knot range, and would do no good when used with the proper 110% jib. But here is the dillemna with a roller furling staysail on a boat this small.

2007年3月2日 · I'll start by talking to Beneteau and Finot about this. I think the modification was available from factory but I'm unsure. I have seen several 473's with a staysail, usually rigged as a Scutter rather than fractional rig - thus avoiding running backstays and also adding redundancy to the forestay (failure of which would obviously be dramatic).

2003年8月27日 · the term spinnaker staysail has been applied to a broad range of sails over the years. In the late '60s a staysail flown with a spinnaker might be rather long on the foot, and some had an odd 'topless' configuration where the head had two corners and a bridle replaced the top of the sail. In the mid '70s the 'Tall Boy' type staysail

2008年4月1日 · The staysail boom is the easiest way (least amount of hardware) to make the sail self-tacking. If you want that feature, but not the boom, you need an Elvstrom-style traveller track for the staysail - arguably just as much in the way depending on just where it …

2018年5月28日 · I find it difficult to fly a 130% genoa alone without the help of back-winding the staysail to help create a path and wind tunnel for the geona to pass through with ease. When flying my geona alone, it gets hung up on the stay when winds are less than 8 to 10 knots. Better when the wind picks up but typically that is when I would add the staysail.