[Rhodes22-list] Code Zero

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Thomas,
It was so long ago, and we sold the boat in 2016 so this is going to be 
pretty sketchy - and I have no idea what gear is available now.

The mini-furler attached to a high tech line in the luff of the sail and 
a stainless u-bolt on the foredeck enough aft of the drum for the genoa 
furler and forward of the plate for the deck vent (or in our case the 
Nicro solar fan)  that they didn't interfere with each other. Ours was a 
single line furler but IIRC, Doyle went to a continuous line furler the 
next year - that would have been nice.

The UPS had its own halyard and I think we moved the topping lift to a 
block attached to the masthead plate to free up a sheave in the masthead 
for it. The UPS came with its own lightweight sheets that just stayed 
attached to the sail. We just removed the regular genoa sheets from the 
blocks on the the genoa track and looped them around the very handy 
handholds on either side of the companionway. Our genoa track ran all 
the way to the winches and was adequate. While we talked about tying  
blocks to the aft cleats to get a slightly better angle and maybe point 
a little higher, we never did.

With this set up, we could furl the UPS and switch to the genoa fairly 
easily. If we had a building breeze we would drop the UPS on its furler, 
leave it attached at the u-bolt  and stash it below or in its bag 
against the mast. It didn't furl tightly enough to stay aloft but furled 
in a breeze.

Doyle was incredibly helpful in walking us through the process. The sail 
came with the furler and sheets attached. All we needed to do was 
install the u-bolt in the deck and free up the halyard.

It was a great sail for light air, very forgiving and a lot of fun to 
play with.

Mary Lou
ex Rhodes 22
now Rosborough RF-246
Rock Hall, MD

On 11/20/2021 11:42 AM, THOMAS POLISE via Rhodes22-list wrote:
> I’m interested in this, can you provide a little more detail on how it was rigged, what typemodel of mini furler and how it was attached?
>
>> On Nov 20, 2021, at 11:08 AM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
>>
>> There were several of us who did a group order in 2003 or 2004 for what Doyle called their UPS sail which was similar to a Code 0. It flies and furls on it's own luff with a mini-furler on the foredeck and on a spare or extra halyard. The sail was perfect downwind for those days when the air was so light the genoa would collapse on itself. It was also good up to 7 or 8 knots (if I recall correctly) at a beam reach and could be sailed above a beam reach in light air.
>>
>> It was a bit of a hassle to rig but was great fun to sail.
>>
>> The attached photos are our former boat flying the UPS.
>>
>> Mary Lou
>> ex Rhodes 22
>> now Rosborough RF-246
>> Rock Hall, MD
>>
>>> On 11/20/2021 10:37 AM, Austin Boyd wrote:
>>> Am thinking of getting a code 0 for light air days. Am curious if any other
>>> Rhodes owners are using one and how it is working out.
>>>
>>> Austin Boyd
>>> Ridgefield, CT
>>> S/V Acadia
>>
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