Our mailsail has no boom. It has a old style roller furler on a wire luff and sheets to the boomkin. We are happy with the arrangement, but need more sail area downwind, as the sail shape of the main is poor downwind. (much like a non poled genoa).
We did find a masthead crane from our westsail guru in Cal. We will run a separate halyard to the block.
We may eventually go back to a boom for alot of reasons, but at this time, the sail is in such good shape, we are trying other downwind options.
Thanks for this and any other suggestions.
rich
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