Single handed mainsail drop, no lazyjacks

[MultiThom]

Actually no boom either, so pretty specific and since multihull I have a wide area to let it just lie flang dang on the trampoline. But when I start to motor toward the marina (always drop where there is sea room) it tries to fly about. I've been taking the time to gather it and bungie it together, but sometimes there is traffic and I'm not maneuvering with either sails or motor. Is there a better way? Suggestions welcome.

 

[Zonker]

Get a boom. You know you want one.

 

[The Dark Knight]

Get a boom. You know you want one.

And lazyjacks

 

[Jethrow]

I had a boom-less rig on my cat for a while. I just had a boombag that hung from lazyjacks and clipped to the clew to hold it out. It did the job pretty well...

 

[The Q]

If you are not fully battened then just scandalise it to the mast..should be easy with a few thin ropes.

 

[Jambalaya]

Drop the main where there is no traffic and bungee it up. You are over thinking this

 

[munt]

At the one dock I used where it was pretty difficult to sail on and off I used my Farrier style roller boom to bring the main down. I could roll that thing up very quickly indeed. It's an incredibly useful tool and very easy to fabricate. It's usefulness easily supersedes any benefit of the boomless main imho.

 

[bridhb]

And lazyjacks

I admit I have lazyjack envy.

 

[MultiThom]

Get a boom. You know you want one.

Nah, worthless weight. Mast is aft and high aspect mainsail and self tacking jib. Boom is one of the two things that can kill you (the other is falling off).

 

[MultiThom]

Drop the main where there is no traffic and bungee it up. You are over thinking this

You could be right, I could just treat the tramp like a lazy jack and stretch bungie across from the float and sandwich the main down.

 

[MultiThom]

I had a boom-less rig on my cat for a while. I just had a boombag that hung from lazyjacks and clipped to the clew to hold it out. It did the job pretty well...

I'll give that a try if the tramp hold down bungie doesn't work.

 

[Foolish]

Remember the basic rule that until you are tied up to the dock, you must be able to raise the sail in short order when your engine quits at exactly the wrong moment.

 

[LB 15]

Remember the basic rule that until you are tied up to the dock, you must be able to raise the sail in short order when your engine quits at exactly the wrong moment.

Rolling the jib out is a better idea when that happens.

 

[kdock44]

I usually just sail tie it to the boom as best I can and then re-flake when things calm down or I'm at the dock. Always been easier than getting it up single handed.

 

[Raz'r]

I'll give that a try if the tramp hold down bungie doesn't work.

Yeah, the old racer-foredeck trick. Bungee down each side, several plastic hooks tied in. Drop and bungee. Easy on, easy off.

 

[Kenny Dumas]

Tie a 2 mm spectra guide line to your masthead and pull it down hard behind the mast. Put a small soft shackle at the luff of each batten and shackle / hank them to the guide line.

 

[MultiThom]

Tie a 2 mm spectra guide line to your masthead and pull it down hard behind the mast. Put a small soft shackle at the luff of each batten and shackle / hank them to the guide line.

That would keep it all together and make it easy to bungie the bundle. It would take longer to hoist with those 8 soft shackles to engage, but might work.

 

[Kenny Dumas]

Might actually be easier to hoist with the luff under control and way easier to fold single hand Might only need a few to make it work. I guess it’s sort of a Loose Dutchman. Anybody know one we could name it for?

 

[MultiThom]

Might actually be easier to hoist with the luff under control and way easier to fold single hand Might only need a few to make it work. I guess it’s sort of a Loose Dutchman. Anybody know one we could name it for?

I use a feeder for hoisting to keep the luff from flopping about. Typically, I hoist in the marina while tied up assuming I can find an upwind parking spot for the evolution. Part of the issue is the amount of line for hoisting and dropping--2:1 main haiyard makes for about 100 feet of line and since it is small diameter dyneema it seems to love to get tangled on the drop.

 

[shaggybaxter]

2:1 main haiyard makes for about 100 feet of line and since it is small diameter dyneema it seems to love to get tangled on the drop.

Try not coiling it up in one direction, ie: don't coil it in loops. Coil it in two loops and reverse the lay between each loop. It runs sooo much nicer.