And here is a hinge-free alternative, Annie - a straight 1:1 scale copy of Ingeborg rigs. I just couldn’t let be. Its’ a bit bad form to jump in like this, but I happen to know that this rig works. With ample halyard drift, like here, one is free to shift this sail quite a bit fore or aft until the helm balance is right.
I learned yesterday from David that...
«Arne's postings on his rigs are often about how you need to do "thus" and "thus" to the YHP and THP and LHP and HKP to get them to set well.»
That may have been true in the days of Johanna. Since her mast was a bit too short, and since the sail had to be forced aft of its natural position to avoid lee helm, quite big forces landed on those running parrels.
This has changed a lot with Frøken Sørensen and now with Ingeborg. With ample halyard drift, which lets me move the slingpoint aft of the middle, and the YHP point even further aft and up (2/3 up), and now, after shifting the whole sail of Ingeborg forward to 13-15% balance, the forces in the parrels have become very light. Moreover, I don’t have to touch them underway, except when reefing and un-reefing. My THP is just the LHP which has been moved up to the top of the luff. The HK parrels are lightly loaded and only do small corrections as our sailing changes between upwind and downwind. These are set up at the first rigging of the sail, and then forgotten about.
Anyway, don’t lose focus on building the boat. It is not time for worrying about rigs yet.
Keep up the very good work, I’m impressed what you can do!
Arne
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