[Rhodes22-list] UPS (sail) Question

[Mary Lou Troy]

Wally,
I think Tom hit the nail on the head with his last sentence. The rope luff 
of the UPS is going to have more give than the forestay and it won't be 
holding up your mast besides. If you read all their literature, the cut of 
the sail is very different from a genoa. The "furler that it's on is really 
not more than a couple of swivels with a spool at the bottom for the 
furling line. We toyed with not getting the furler but I think we will even 
though we always have a deck ape (me).

Mary Lou



At 11:22 AM 1/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>hi wally
>i dont know the answer to your question but you can call a loft and find
>out..im sure you can point better that way...the reason for the separate
>system is that you set it up at the dock and can raise and lower it from the
>cockpit...for a singlehander like my self thats a plus...if i had a regular
>crew that enjoys foredeck work (we used to call them deck apes) i might
>rethink the rig....also by not having it atteched to the forestay i think
>youll get better downwind performance
>best
>tom
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