Lucky Dawg is lacking a good sail inventory. I am looking into "new" used sails from suppliers per your recommendations (Atlantic, Bacon, etc). Curious about an all around genoa that I could use with a CDI Flexible Furler. I have the sail dimensions as below. NEW main and 135% genoa seem to be about 2200-2800+. 135, 155, ????
I happen to be in a similar situation with my new boat. Because it is not good use of my time to buy a sail, trial fit it, only to find out that it is horribly wrong, I made up an excel spreadsheet that shows what it would look like versus my rig.
I have attached a version for the Ariel. It shows the mast and forestay, and plots the outlines of each of the named jibs (#1, #2, working, storm, drifter).
Have at it. I found it a useful tool to visualize if a particular sail was in the right ball park or not.
There is even one sail that I have called "trial jib", where you put in whatever dimensions you are looking at, to compare it to the rest of the jibs.
Also note that I wrote this with having roller furling installed. So there is a value called "DRUM", to take account for the tack of the sail not being on the deck. If you have no roller furling, just enter " 0 " for this value, and it will show all your sails tacked tothe deck.
I just guessed that the drum takes up ~9 or so inches of luff length. Adjust to suit.
Enjoy!
-Keith
C&C 35
PS, I still wish I could have kept my Ariel (along with the new boat). There are days when a simple main-jib-tiller setup would be lovely.
That being said, I am always looking for enthusiastic crew for wednesday night races on my C&C.
Originally Posted by Lucky Dawg
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