[quote=nacra55]Why do you want a furler on an Infusion?
Removing the S hook is the least of your issues.
With a furler, the downhaul – halyard, must be run down the forestay and inside the swivel at the top and furler at the bottom and tied or cleated so that all can spin around the forestay. Due to this, the downhaul on the jib can’t be adjusted on the fly.
To be able to furl, you must have a jib with partial or no battens. Furling the jib with partial battens tends to come undone and normally does this from the top down and beats the jib like crazy while shacking the whole rig. It’s not like a hobie 18 jib with no battens that furls nice and flat.
Rigging the jib sheet is the biggest issue, it takes a lot of line to be able to furl. Extra sheet flopping on the tramp, getting tangle in the Cunningham, spin sheet, spin halyard and sucked into spin blocks can really screw up a nice day sailing.
All this being said, it can be done, it just takes a furler, shorter forestay, different jib halyard, jib cut to be furled, maybe different bridle wires, a different support for the spin pole under the furler, some cheek blocks to mount on the spin pole for turning blocks for the jib sheet, traveler block for jib sheet and cleat for furler line. I'm sure I forgot something. It just doesn’t work very well when the breeze comes up.[/quote]
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