Hi Robert, You should also consider taking a look at your Forestay tension. That goes hand in had with the halyards comments.. Basically, if the forestay is too loose can cause the foils to become bowed or "elliptical" (That's the term Harken uses)especially when there's a load on the jib. Here's their Youtube video explaning the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcHvxBCjF8
You probably know this but I'll add anyway. About furling with a load on the jib: My rule of thumb is: Assuming everything is in order as long as you can furl it by hand / not use a winch you should be fine... If you use a winch to furl and there is an issue you can twist / ruin your foil. Last year I had an issue where when we re-did the Spin halyards.. While the mast was down my well intentioned rigger suggested we should go ahead and install a halyard wrap preventer. He was positive that was the thing to do on a C&C. When I got the boat back on the water, the furler issues started right away: The foil was getting tangled in the halyard because of the angle created by the preventer.. (That was the exact opposite of the the preventer was supposed to do) The fix was to remove the preventer and leave it as C&C / Offshore Spars designed it. We figured it out by using binoculars to observe what was actually happening. Did you perchance install a preventer to "Improve" your masthead? Good luck with it. Best Regards, -Francois Rivard 1990 34+ "Take Five" Lake Lanier, GA From: RPH via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 1:08 AM Subject: Stus-List Why does my furler get "hung up"? I just bent on my main and jib this evening. While furling my jib, the furler (Harken) seemed to get caught up somehow. It was as if the furler wanted to unwind a little, if that makes sense.? I know that my jib sheets were not fouled. It felt as if I was twisting the foil or the forestay.? I managed to furl by repeatedly backing off and gingerly furling again.? Anyway, I'm asking because this happened to me last summer under sail while I was trying to reef. The situation was as above, but with the added drama of a wildly flapping jib.? Is there an obvious reason for this?? Robert H.1989 C&C 30 MKII
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