[Rhodes22-list] Fat Rigged IMF

[Leland]

Patrick,

I doubt that I'd change to the fat-rigged IMF but I am very interested in
it.  Having a mainsail the size of a king-sized bed sheet and a Genoa that's
twice its size is a bit unusual.  Even so I often have too much sail out for
my boat than too little.  With the boom up I need to reef the mainsail on a
close reach if the wind gets near 12 knots.

I prefer to sail with the poptop open and the boom up, and I assume the
fat-rig boom could catch on the backstays unless rigged differently.

You mentioned that you plan on installing hardware on the cabintop to sheet
inside the stays.  I'm confident that will take care of your pointing
issues.  The closer to the mast the tighter you can pull the sail.

This only works for me if there's enough wind to get some heel.  In light
wind you may need a well-noursihed crew hiking out to leeward to get
adequate heel to point well.

If you barely have enough wind to inflate the 175 then it will get hung-up
during the tack.  Prior to the tack just reef it back to about 120% and it
will pull itself over.  It doesn't take a lot of wind to prevent the 175
from getting hung-up, but when you have that much wind you usually don't
need that much headsail.

Good luck!

Lee
1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
Kent Island, MD



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