[Rhodes22-list] 175 vs 130 Genoa

[Jesse Shumaker]

Now that I look at the link Mary Lou provided, I see the suggestion is to
mount the pad eye about 4 inches behind the forestay.

Just curious, has anyone else gotten the UPS sail and if so, have you found
it helpful?

Also, for those that have  the UPS sail - has anyone tried using a dual
headsail (genoa + UPS) wing on wing arrangement without the main going
downwind?  It seems like that would be helpful since you wouldn't have to
worry about an accidental jibe.  I suppose it may be helpful/necessary to
have a whisker pole for each headsail in that case.

Jesse Shumaker
S/V Zephyr

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 7:10 AM Jesse Shumaker <
jesse.laten.shumaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mary Lou, thanks for sharing the great photos of the Code 0 / UPS sail.
> Do you recall any particulars (how far back) regarding the pad-eye
> placement behind the forestay?  I'm adding a plate as a base for a bow
> roller, so I think I may add a pad-eye to the base plate while I'm working
> on this project.  All of this will be through bolted to a backing plate on
> the interior of the deck in the v-berth, so it will be adequately
> supported.  I don't have a Code 0 / UPS right now, but it would be nice to
> have the pad-eye in place in case I do get one of those sails later.
>
> Peter, have you been happy with the placement of your pad-eye that you
> added for your UPS sail?  I saw your setup where you added a pad eye to
> your bow sprit in one of your youtube videos.
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse Shumaker
> S/V Zephyr
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:59 PM Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>> There's still some (very old) info on the Rhodes owners website from
>> when we were initially talking about the sail.
>> (http://rhodes22.org/upssail/index.html) I don't think Doyle actually
>> sells this sail anymore but they or someone might make you one. A search
>> of the archives for UPS might yield some more a lot posts. It's more of
>> what they were calling at the time a Code 0 rather than a spinnaker and
>> could be sailed to somewhere above a beam reach. In addition to the
>> sail, we needed to add a halyard, a halyard restrainer and a padeye on
>> the foredeck behind the jib for the minifurler for the UPS to attach to.
>>
>> The sail was just a tremendous amount of fun to play with. The attached
>> photos are our old boat flying the UPS on a particularly lovely day when
>> we sailed south from Rock Hall, MD, came around the point at Eastern
>> Neck Island and then sailed northeast up the Chester River all with the
>> UPS and no tacks in a north wind. And then a helicopter came and took
>> our picture. Just an unbelievably wonderful day.
>>
>> Mary Lou
>> ex Rhodes 22
>> now Rosborough RF-246
>>
>> On 11/23/2020 7:01 PM, Tom Van Heule wrote:
>> > I like the sound and added hassle of the second sail. The boat is
>> generally
>> > so easy to sail... gimme something to do! Lol  Anyone have an archive
>> link
>> > to appease my curiosity in the details?
>> >
>> > .... I'm excited to be able to sail in the same direction for more than
>> 15
>> > minutes!!
>> >
>> > I want to say, as I can get away with it this week, how thankful we are
>> for
>> > this community.  We learn so much, we have fun, we are smart people, and
>> > it's just... swell.
>> >
>> > Smooth sailing,
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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