IMPORTANT – In stronger winds the main halyard is tightened quite hard to
flatten the sail and to avoid wrinkles in the luff – luff wrinkles can sometimes not
be avoided. By tensing the mainsail luff upwind in winds exceeding 6 m/s (12
knots), you must always ease off the main sheet while tensing the luff. In
stronger wind conditions, wrinkles in the luff cannot be avoided 100% and these
are ok and acceptable. This has very little negative effect, and again, it is much
more important to focus on the mainsheet and preventer system to make a fast
mainsail trim.
When sailing with the sprayhood up, the mainsail boom can touch the sprayhood
if the mainsail luff is too slack.
If for example you are anchoring or beaching for a short time with the main sail
set, then loosen the main halyard a bit to release the tension in the mainsail luff,
and the mainsail will get flat and not so easy catch the wind. However, we cannot
recommend keeping up the mainsail while at anchor.
In stronger wind conditions, wrinkles cannot be avoided in the mainsail luff, just
too must power – BUT you can e.g., use the Reef No. 2 line at the luff by tying the
Reef 2 line to the webbing/ring in the mainsail and use the Reef 2 line as a
Cunningham – this way, you can control the luff of the full mainsail better.
If you have wrinkles where the battens are, often this can be solved by tightening
the batten, this is done in the luff by the batten pocket fitting with a screwdriver.
Just tighten the batten maybe 10 or 15 mm.
IMPORTANT – when jibing in stronger wind conditions, make sure to make a fully
controlled jibe, pull the mainsheet fully into the center, as you jibe. After jibing,
very quickly ease off the mainsail sheet again and set the boomvang/preventer
again. If you are not careful when jibing in strong winds, you can damage the
mainsail or even break the sail battens, and even in worst case, damage the
rigging.
When jibin
g, always be careful the main sheet lines do not catch on the winches
and the cockpit table.
ASYMMETRIC SPINNAKER/GENNEKER SAILING:
Sailing with the asymmetrical spinnaker is a fantastic third dimension in sailing,
which a lot of people often dread, caused by bad earlier monohull experiences.
On a trimaran, asymmetric spinnaker sailing is fun and a comfortable adventure.
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