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Pearson Boats - Common Systems => Sails and Canvas => Topic started by: jwspeck on June 08, 2015, 12:07:05 PM

Title: Mainsail on the shrouds
Post by: jwspeck on June 08, 2015, 12:07:05 PM

My mainsail spends a lot of time rubbing on the shrouds in anything further downwind than a beam reach.

There also appears to be a lot of twist in the mainsail even with my vang fully tensioned.

I've attached a picture from sailing wing on wing a couple weekends ago. Yes, I am reefed and the outhaul could have been tighter but it still happens when not reefed.

Do your sails spend a lot of time rubbing the shrouds?

Title: Re: Mainsail on the shrouds
Post by: Libations Too on June 10, 2015, 01:23:28 AM

I think this is a problem common to many sailboats when sailing deep downwind; not just the 323. I know that my sails have a telltale soiling pattern where they meet the shrouds.

Title: Re: Mainsail on the shrouds
Post by: rkfitz on July 28, 2015, 10:30:04 PM

Out haul is fine, you want some belly in the sail going downwind, the more drag the better. Going wing and wing is a slow point of sail, but fun, that being said you'd gain a knot or so if you poled out the jib. I never let my main sit on the shrouds.