[quote= Just recently before the Carib 1500 cruising rally, a Hylas jammed their conventional roller-furler with the sail half in, half out, and struggled with it for two hours. The end result? - The entire forestay came tumbling down on deck from the strain they'd put on it using the winch trying to unjam it, and the mast would have followed but they had an inner stay. Thankfully it was only on the Chesapeake, but it made my mind up.[/QUOTE]
As Mark Twain said, "If a cat jumps up on a hot stove, it will never jump up on a hot stove again. Of course, it will never jump up on a cold one, either." That Hylas was a hot stove, but a properly-installed and -used furler isn't. Nothing the matter with hank-on, but let's be fair.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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