Need Help Rigging a Genoa

[WindyWay]

I have a 150% Genoa with a 130% reefing point. My question is what do you do or how do you stow the clew and the tack on the sail when you reef? Seems they just flap there without being attached to anything.

[okawbow]

Are there reef ties sewed to the sail? Normally the reefed portion of the sail is rolled up and tied, so it doesn't flap.

[CharlieJ]

We have grommets and nettles on the jib, just like on the main. We roll the foot and tie off each point. Works really well.

I'll see if I can find a pic later this evening.

[WindyWay]

Thanks for your responses. There are reef ties in the genoa, but they don't go as far forward as the tack or as far back as the clew. They just sort of hang there when the ties are tied up.

[CharlieJ]

I had to add another grommet right at the reefing clew position, just under and forward of where the sheet ties. Otherwise that part of the leech would flop around. Now it ties up neatly. At the tack it just bunches up and stays put.

I should mention that all my jibs set on pennants to get them above the pulpit, so I can see under them. The reefing pennant is permanently attached and just dangles when not in use. Deck sweeping jibs have no place on a short handed cruising boat.

I don't have any pics of the jib reefed on this laptop unfortunately, and I am many many miles away from my other one.

[WindyWay]

Thanks for your reply Charlie. I'm glad others have found the same issues & I'm not totally out to lunch. When you say "Deck sweeping jibs have no place on a short handed cruising boat." I have to respectfully disagree. Although you're right in most respects, visibility being one for sure, I'll bring the 150% down to the deck when there is barely any wind to catch and it does help a bit. In those conditions it's easy to move around the boat even when alone to catch an otherwise blocked view.

[CharlieJ]

I'll bring the 150% down to the deck when there is barely any wind to catch and it does help a bit. In those conditions it's easy to move around the boat even when alone to catch an otherwise blocked view.

:D

You should have been aboard the day my wife towed the dinghy right over the top of a  nun, because she didn't see that we were sliding a bit in a light current. I was below sleeping.

I added a pennant the next day.

And with all the tow boat traffic we experience on the Texas coast, it's crazy to NOT be able to see ahead ALL the time. We'll sometimes see 40 tows in a day.

Of course I'm in the Chesapeake right now so none of those problems- commercial stuff is so infrequent here it;s astonishing.

[WindyWay]

Sorry Charlie I don't know what a pennant is (other than a flag)??

[CharlieJ]

a short wire or line from the tack on the sail, down to the tack fitting on the bow. I have ours just long enough to raise the jib foot just clear of the pulpit.

[WindyWay]

OK gotsha. I have one as well that I use when the genoa is reefed to 130%. or when I use just the jib. Only when the wind is light (5kts) do I use the deck sweeping feature of the full 150%.

So the common thought is to add an additional grommet fwd & under the clew reefing point to tie the reefing "tail", & just leave the front tack point alone?