How do you store your roller furling jib?

abiehl · Post by **abiehl** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:03 am

I have a Macgregor 26S with roller furling. I do not yet have a mooring, so I launch my boat every time I sail and store it in my driveway. I was wondering where and how everyone else who has a similar situation stores their jib. In the boat? In the garage? If you store it in the boat, do you rig it with PVC or something to keep it from bending?

RobertB · Post by **RobertB** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:09 am

I lash it to the mast using the genny sheets. I also use a lenght of 1-1/2 inch PVC to support the part that extends past the mast when trailering.

Post by **Hamin' X** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:44 am

I bungee two boards to the mast and the furler/drum. Simple & cheap:

~Rich

Saxacussionist · Post by **Saxacussionist** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:10 am

I cut 3/4" velcro into strips long enough to go around the mast and roller furler. I secure the furler, sheets, and rigging by placing the strips every couple of feet or so. Trailered the Heaven Bound on our last vacation over 850 miles at highway speeds, they didn't move an inch! Nice and neat looking, no wear or chafing. I coil the rigging in a large loop between the mast and cockpit. Works great.

When you launch the boat, simply stick them all together in one bunch, front to back. When you are ready to use them again, just peel them off as you go... I also use one of them to hold the furler to the gin pole so it doesn't drag the deck as you raise the mast.

I don't know who invented velcro, but it's at the top of my list for a lot of things! I use the sticky-back kind for a curtain that hides the head from the view of the cockpit, gives you so much room to take care of business without making it everyone elses business.

That same curtain is used for privacy for the whole cabin by covering the companionway. Ya gotta love the stuff! (but I digress...)

dive4it · Post by **dive4it** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:18 am

I disconnect the furler at the top and slide it up so it's even with the mast at the bow. I then lash it to the mast using nylon one inch webbing with fastex buckles that I made. It's quick, easy and out of the way. I put different colored buckles on the different lengths of webbing so I know where they go down the like so there is no guessing.

JT

K9Kampers · Post by **K9Kampers** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:15 pm

What we call velcro, was salvaged from the Roswell crash.

Saxacussionist · Post by **Saxacussionist** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:31 pm

K9Kampers wrote:What we call velcro, was salvaged from the Roswell crash.

I knew it! It's WAY too advanced for us...

I'm thinking about starting a thread about how we use velcro on our boats - whatcha think?

seahouse · Post by **seahouse** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:19 pm

I like to make anything I carry on board do multiple duty, if possible, because you have fewer things to deal with, storing etc. So I use the boat hook (which isn't doing anything at that time anyway) telescoped out and wrapped around with the genoa sheets to keep it from sagging over the bow. Bungee cords fill in where the sheets run out. Stored it over the winter that way, and the foil was straight in the spring.

- B.

On Edit: I should also add that I put the pant leg cut off from an old pair of jeans over the outside of the furler drum area to stop it from causing any (more) scratches on the deck when raising the mast.

dive4it · Post by **dive4it** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:08 pm

Velcro. First, I'd just like to say that I'm a parachute rigger, so over the years I've learned to really hate Velcro. I was always replacing it for people because it would wear out not only itself but also it would rough up the nylon webbing, etc. That is why most parachute systems have gone to tuck flaps and other means of getting away from "hook and loop". Having said that....I've found a new love for the stuff around the sailboat. Packed in my Mac tool box is a large quantity of industrial strength sticky back 2" wide vecro. I've been using it for all kinds of things on the boat....mostly while under way. I highly recommend everyone carry some on the boat, it has so many applications both temporary and permanent. If you want to start a thread....I'm sure I'll be chiming in.

JT

abiehl · Post by **abiehl** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:35 pm

Thanks everyone! Lots of simple, good ideas. Velcro seems like the most common solution.

Catigale · Post by **Catigale** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:55 pm

Technically hook and loop attachment......Velcro (tm) is a trademarked name btw. I did some work for them and they are sensitive about the use of the name. Kinda like drinking a Pepsi at Coke HQ.

Swiss invention, although the concepts as around before, process for manufacturing developed in 1950s

Went viral in late 1970s

after key patents expired..

Often attributed incorrectly to NASA....I've done this myself in the past.....

K9Kampers · Post by **K9Kampers** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:26 pm

Wikipedia:
Velcro is a company that produces the first commercially marketed fabric hook-and-loop fastener,[1] invented in 1948 by the Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral. De Mestral patented Velcro in 1955, subsequently refining and developing its practical manufacture until its commercial introduction in the late 1950s.

Roswell: 1947

Coincidence?!...

Saxacussionist · Post by **Saxacussionist** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:50 pm

K9Kampers wrote:
Wikipedia:
Velcro is a company that produces the first commercially marketed fabric hook-and-loop fastener,[1] invented in 1948 by the Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral. De Mestral patented Velcro in 1955, subsequently refining and developing its practical manufacture until its commercial introduction in the late 1950s.
Roswell: 1947

Coincidence?!...

I KNEW it!!

Ok - we've hijacked this thread long enough. Starting a new "101 Uses For Velcro" thread!

mastreb · Post by **mastreb** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:43 am

Gosh, I feel really ghetto--I just lay my roller furling jib on deck along the stanchions and use lash the furler line to the bow pulpit to keep the spool and foot from sagging. It remains connected to the hound, and doesn't move at all. It protrudes about two feet forward of the bow, but no big deal there.

I have the strong feeling that most people do a whole lot more rigging and unrigging of their boats when they trailer than I do. I also leave the gin pole attached, winched up so that it's off the deck half way to the mast, and often leave it attached while sailing, just slack on deck with a towl around the winch to keep it from scratching the deck. Next time I'm leaving the boom attached and flacking the sail under it, using just the sail bag around the mast and boom to hold everything up and in.

Save a whole lot of doing and undoing.

rwmiller56 · Post by **rwmiller56** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:40 am

I lash the roller furler to the mast using bungee cords. The furler drum will stick out a few feet forward of the mast. I use a boat hook lashed to the mast as an extension, and lash the remaining length of the furler to it.

Not the most sophisticated system, but it has worked reliably.

Roger

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