Hope the weather will allow me to do it in a few days...

Please comment it, as I would like to plan the job as well as possible to do it fast in an open weather window.

Thanks

P.S. It's a short time fix that I need to do as I don't have the time for serious changes. I'm thinking about cutting the foresail to a smaller size in a future and probably installing the aft bowsprit.

1. To move halyard connector aft.

2. Install boom downhaul

To move sail aft:

1. Move halyard connector forward

2. Use luff hauling parrel

3. Use tack parrel

Any other options? How far do you think can I move the halyard connector without harming anything too much?

Hi David and Chris,

Good to know about battens parrels, I knew something wrong there. Not sure though if I can make them longer on foresail, I guess it would allow the sail to move backward on the mast, no?

When I took the picture, it was a little windy, so I raised only foresail and forgot to tension the yard hauling parrel, that's why it slacks. I'll try to do a better ones ASAP. The length of the yard is 420cm. Halyard is connected at 200cm from the fore end and yard hauling parrel is connected 250cm from the fore end of the yard.

I don't really know what was the idea behind making both sails and masts equal and so close one to another... Anyway, I need to position sails and foresails blocks in a best possible way in those circumstances. For this matter, I think I need to move foresail as forward as possible and main as aft as possible. What do you guys think about it?

Thanks for helping.

Evgeniy

Thanks for uploading the photos. I will certainly have a study of these over the next several days and see if I can come up with some suggestions. Other members may also be able to help.

I can see straight off though by looking at a couple of the photos that your batten parrels are a real mess, all tangled in amongst each other and quite short so this could be where a lot of the friction is coming from when raising the sail. I will try and find some photos of the arrangement on my own boat and upload them, or take some photos next weekend when I am out sailing. I would make the batten parrels a lot longer, say from the forward end of the batten and going up to a meter aft of the mast. You will need some way of locating them on the batten so they do not slide forward. Some people use  stainless steel saddles for this but I use two s/s pins that stop the parrels sliding forward on the batten. By having the parrels longer you can pull them quite tight when the sail is lowered which will help keep the sail against the mast (which will help prevent the slatting against the mast of the sail), but by being longer the parrels are actually in contact with a much smaller surface area of the mast so less friction when raising and lowering the sail. Hope that makes sense! I and a few other members are using webbing for the batten parrels and my own experience is that the webbing can be pulled a lot tighter but slides up and down the mast a lot more easily than thin diameter rope.

I just checked and there are a few photos of my sail and batten parrels in the 'New Sail' album in my members profile.

I uploaded the pictures, please have a look.