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Originally Posted by BirdBrain333
Dear folks, I was surprised when looking at the sailplan of the PS 37 that the storm jib flies off the forestay. I somehow thought it would be on the staysail stay to keep the rig centered. Anyone have experience flying it in both locations? Many thanks, Jay
PS 171, Kenlanu |
I'm not sure which sailplan you're referring to. The one I linked above is for the Crealock 34.
On this drawing of the
Pacific Seacraft Crealock 37 sailplan, it looks like the storm jib flies from the inner forestay, not the headstay.
But I imagine there are arrangements that allow for a storm jib to be flown from either, since these boats came rigged both as cutters and sloops (and yawls).
[Also, just for clarification, in these posts I refer to the foreward stay that spans from the stem to the head of the mast as the "headstay". This is the stay from which the "headsails" such as the genoas are flown. I refer to the intermediate, shorter stay that only reaches to a fraction of the mast's height as the "forestay", from which can be flown the "forestaysails", referred to in shorthand as " 'staysails ".]