[quote=randii]I couldn’t get the jib riggedlast Saturday – I had steady winds in the teens with gusts into the 20s and I just wasn’t willing to keep thrashing the jib. I was sailing solo that day, so I didn’t have a helper to hold the clew of the sail dead downwind to avoid flapping. To make matters worse, after recent LASIK, I can’t see fine details at 2’ focus without specs, so I couldn’t disengage the sister clips and time/wind was not my jib’s friend… so I stuffed it into the back of the Subaru and sailed mono-rig that day. I had a great time even with just the mainsail, but I had some challenges tacking across the wind, and got stalled out a few times. Backwinding the jib would have been handy, but I can usually back out of irons and onto my new tack.
[b]So my question is this… does anyone have any tricks/suggestions for hoisting a Hobie 18 jib solo in heavy air?[/b]
With dacron sails, I could pre-rig the sail solo around the forestay and prewind the furler in my shop, then coil it all up together with a couple of rubber bands, and deploy coiled when I raised the mast. Connect the jib sheets, cleat the furler line, and I was good to go (the rubber bands pop when you unfurl/sheet in). With a mylar sail, the coiled/furled sail is too stiff to loosely coil, and I don’t want to fold it.
So how do you folks zip on, tension, and furl a jib in heavy air without it whipping itself (and you) to death?
Randii (who almost misses H18 jib battens)[/quote]
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