main sail furler

tomh

New Member
The boat I am looking at has a Facnor main sail furler, not sure about them and might want to remove it.
Any one have any experience with using one and or removing it.
 

Loren Beach

O34 - Portland, OR
Senior Moderator
Blogs Author
What is the age and vintage of the furler? Was this one of the ones mounted behind the mast, sort of like a headsail furler??
Pardon my ignorance.....

Loren
 

toddster

Curator of Broken Parts
Blogs Author
Only on a boat that I took lessons on once. First time I'd sailed anything larger than a dinghy. Out of about six trips on that boat, the furler jammed once with the sail deployed. (May have been my fault, pulling on the wrong line.) I didn't know enough about it at the time to figure it out - we just pulled down the sail and let the owner sort it out. IIRC, he said some part had to be replaced. The sail has to be made for the furler, with some odd vertical battens. Makes it hard or impossible to furl or flake conventionally. So, if ditching the furler, you'd probably have to replace the sail too.

(As an aside, that was a very strange boat to be giving lessons on. Lots and lots of lines led to the cockpit, with the traveller up on an arch over the bimini. You couldn't see where any of those lines went or directly see what any of them did.)
 
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