Well guys, we nailed it!

Flipped the main around and we got some good looking baton rise. 

Now. The jiblets still need to be tuned, when I pull down on the front of the sail, they look great. Im going to try and move the stadic yard parrel back and see if that helps balance the rig a bit. I feel like the sheets are going to mess with it a bit though so I was wondering if is normal practice to tie in the down hull with pipe clamps or something to keep the sail from being pulled aft by the sheeting?

Thanks David.

Thanks Jan. 

I flipped the main sail and all looks good. I am going back to the boat today to rase it up. Hopefully this it the cure  

Hi, Jeoffrey.

2 things I see which don't look right to me and 1 which I am just wondering about.

1. The battens seem to have negative rise, ie, lower at the leech than at the luff.

Did you design the sail with positive rise in the battens?  If so, then for starters the sail isn't hoisting correctly

And/or, possibly you may have the sail hoisted too tightly, putting those diagonal stretch lines into the panels.

2. It may be an optical illusion, but the max camber point on the "lense" either side of each batten, seems to have the max camber point on the upper, further back than on the lense below the batten. 

This makes me wonder again if you have put the jiblets on upside down, especially if you designed the sail with positive rise. ie, with the batten rising slightly towards the rear. 

3. How tightly have you tightened the panels along the battens, fore and aft. Again if they are overtaut, that would be inclined to induce diagonal stress across the panel.

So, I'd firstly slacken the sail slightly to see if that makes an improvement.

Make sure the battens are getting any rise that you designed in.

If that doesn't cure it.

Then the bit you dont want to do.  Unsew the top panel at the jiblet and reverse the jiblets to see if you put them on upside down.

An easy mistake to make. 

Jeffery wrote:

Well back here in texas...

I lofted the sail agen. Here are photos of the sail completely loos. Just a stadic yard parel and a jarry riged sheet line for the top panel.[...]

Jeffery,

I think maybe you did not attach the photos.

I wouldn't get rid of the sail catcher. You can never muzzle the jibs properly with lazyjacks - sail catcher is an important accessory for a SJR in my opinion, not for sailing but for protecting and controlling your sail when reefed or fully furled, especially those jibs which will pop out of the lazy jacks and flutter. You'll see.

I think now you might be partly on the right track (Ueli's observation is correct, and the diagonal crease in that upside down jib in my photo backs it up) that the severe creases in the jib might not be caused by the jibs being upside down but by what it looks like that the booms and battens might be just hanging, with a negative rise instead of a positive rise. You won't know until you have hoisted the sail properly and tensioned the parrel downhauls a little. (Don't forget also at some point if you haven't already done so, you will probably want to add a standing downhaul to the boom. Once you have that, you can hoist the sail against it and get it to peak properly, and then take some photos).

I won't make any bets about the mains being upside down or not, but you'll know soon enough.

One step at a time, you'll get there, might not be as bad as it looks.