[CaseyMcM]

I’d like to put a Code Zero drifter/gennaker on my Tayana 37 heavy double ended cruiser on a removable continuous furler. The sail is 1.5 oz nylon, 410 sq ft, and intended to be flown below 20 knots. The Colligo furler has a safe working load of 6000 lbs, so presumably the anchor needs to handle this load easily.
My father in law built a beautiful replacement teak bowsprit for this boat so I’d like to avoid drilling or chafing it too much. Here is my thinking:
- an oversized (3/8 or 1/2 in?) Amsteel strop with brummel splices at each end will be clove hitched around the bowsprit a few inches ahead of the stemhead and passed a few inches up through a hole in the teak grating of the walkway where the furler will clip to it.
- the bowsprit is at least 8 inches in diameter here, octagonal and there is a huge bolt through the sprit and the deck just aft of the stemhead, the cranze iron is new/strong as are the bob and whisker stays (I don't think strength is an issue)
- nylon webbing used for chafe protection where it passes through the teak grate
- leather pad between the strop and bowsprit to protect the wood, held on with waxed thread “suspenders”

I searched through Ashley for a knot more intended for lashing to a spar, but nothing was obvious. It seems like a lot of stress on the parts of the strop which turn 90 degrees as they pass under the cross part of the clove hitch, but that’s why it’ll be oversized. Maybe an extra turn around the bowsprit would help avoid it wandering.

Any comments on the suitability of this?