Mainsail - floehopper/macaria GitHub Wiki

Hood Mainsail

Removal

  • Open sail cover
  • Open slide gates
  • Slides luff slides out of gates
  • Untie and unthread feeding lines
  • Tie stopper knots in reefing lines
  • Pull reefing lines tight
  • 1 blue 2 green 3 red
  • Unshackle outhaul
  • Zip up cover
  • Untie jackstays
  • Untie tack from boom
  • Untie sail cover from front & back of boom
  • Unclip wire topping lift strip
  • Undo main sheet
  • Push boom out to one side
  • Slide sail and cover off boom
  • Undo cover zip
  • Remove sail battens
  • Flake sail
  • Put sail in bag

Photos

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Sail pack

Mainsail foot with slides vs bolt rope

This video is about making your own "sail pack" mainsail cover, but I've linked to the point where they fit it. Note that the mainsail is already in place on the boom before they wrap it up in the cover. This looks as if it would be a lot easier to do.