tedcool wrote:
John - Daggers and rudders will be shaped as soon as it's warm enough to cure resin in my garage. I'm a model airplane builder too, so airfoil profiles are familiar territory to me. I'm pretty sure I have the first gen EPO rudders, so easy enough to work with.
TAMU - No easy way to reef these sails that I can see. I think figuring out the hook won't be too bad. I really want that space on the mast for a better downhaul system.
The easy way to reef is to run no hook and just tie a knot in the halyard or have a cleat as pictured. Youd want a low stretch halyard and I'd be curious if you can actually break the mast head/base casting with the downhaul load going through them from the downhaul. Realistically you probably dont have to downhaul as hard with a reef in anyway because the reduced sail will be depowering the sail nice anyway but still.
I'm gonna be putting a reef in my sail at some point this year anyway so I've been thinking it through.