With your sail higher you are getting less disturbed "air" that isn't as turbulent as air closer to the water surface. Sounds like you are on the right track. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robbin Roddewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 7:53 AM Subject: M_Boats: Up your Genny!
> My jib and 170% Genny attach right on the bow at deck level using a bow > shackle that I bought. From what I see on the web pictures this seems > to be what most others with M-17's do. I noticed the other week that I > have what appears to be two feet of head stay available at the top with > the head sail attached at the deck level. This deck level attachment > means that the head sail is always distorted by the bow pulpit which > cannot help the shape of the sail and worse yet gets the head sail > dirty! What I did yesterday was put a foot and a half of line from the > bow plate to the Tack of the 170 which raised it clear of the bow pulpit > and higher overall. This seemed to work well. > So my question is are there any draw backs to this configuration that > anyone can think of? If I have this much extra room should I look to > have a bigger head sail made? > > Thanks in advance, > Robbin > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
