![]() #CDI ROLLER FURLING MANUAL INSTALL#Mine is bigger than standard and I had to install a block at the mast-head. #CDI ROLLER FURLING MANUAL MAC#If it's the regular Mac one I think you can take the halyard over the original jib block on the forestay mast fitting. If it hasn't got a sock you need to haul it up quickly and let it fly. the spinnaker, yes, you fly it instead of the jib. you can then pull the sail down and the messenger line ensures that you can haul it up again. untie the halyard and attach a messenger line. To drop the sail, reverse the above process - i.e. when the sail is rolled up the line is unrolled, and vice-versa. To do that, manually roll up the sail then fit the line - i.e. When you've got it right with the halyard tied off, you then just need to fit the furling line to the drum. ![]() Sometimes you find the halyard hasn't come far enough down, or maybe it's right down and the sail isn't fully up - in that case you have to pull the sail down again (make sure the messenger line is tied on!) and adjust the bowline to either give more or less rope as required. When the sail is fully up you should be able to untie the messenger line and tie off the decored end of the halyard to the drum (there should be a loop or shackle to tie off to). To raise the jib, tie the halyard to the loop at the head with a bowline, then feed the rope edge of the sail into the cut-out while pulling the messenger line to haul it up. Once you've set up the ropes like that, you can raise the mast. ![]() In order to be able to haul the sail up you must tie a rope to the de-cored end, this rope should be at least as long as the plastic strip so that it too falls to the deck (it's called a "messenger line"). When the sail is off, the de-cored end is at the top so that the sail end of the halyard falls to the deck. The other end runs up inside the slot then goes over the pulley inside the top-end of the strip, and is eventually tied to the sail. The halyard has a ferrule on it where the core ends, and this slides in the slot with the cored end sticking out of the slot. The halyard slides in the slot on the opposite side. Look at the bottom end of the furler strip, on one side there's a cut-out, that's where the sail is fed in. If you've taken that off then there's even more to put together! I'll assume that the furler strip is still on the forestay cable with the drum at the bottom. ![]() The most important bit is the jib halyard, which is a special rope that has a short section with the core removed at one end. However, you need to do a bit of preparation before the mast goes up. You don't need to take the mast down to get the jib off the furler! But now that you've done it, I suggest the you put the mast back up before fitting the jib. Submitted by paul.jacobs on Fri, - 4:34pm ![]() The extra few turns will ensure you don't run out of line.ĭon't forget to make sure the turnbuckle inside the drum is secured with split pins otherwise it could rotate with the drum and eventually come undone. In windy conditions the sail will roll up tightly and you might end up pulling all the line off the drum but there could be some sail still not furled. The spare turns are important - when you furl the sail you pull the line off the drum thus rolling the sail onto the furler). When the sail is fully deployed, there will be just a few turns of line on the drum. It doesn't matter which is which as long as they are opposite.Ģ When the sail is furled, all the line will be on the drum. I always keep 2 simple pictures in my mind:-ġ The line rolls onto the drum on one side and the sail rolls onto the foil the other side. When rigging the furler it's easy to get muddled. In the Mac you will certainly have plenty of occassions when you will want to reef even with a standard jib and you would definitely need to with a genny once the wind gets going. If you subscribe to this line of thinking you probably wouldn't buy a Mac anyway! I think the vast majority of sailors see it as a convenient way of furling and also for reefing (with infinite adjustment available - just reef as much or as little as you want). Some purists take the view that the rolling device is simply for furling and they would frown on reefing part of the sail as it distorts the sail shape. If your boat is 5 or more years old, is the sail original and unused?! Or maybe a replacement? Don't suppose it matters much (unless it is a replacement for a completely different boat!). I don't know the dimension for a standard jib but it would be a bit less and a genoa would be quite a lot more. Mine is a "105% jib" and the foot is 358cm. ![]()
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