I'm interested in how many of you with in-boom furling (particularly "Leisurefurl") employ an electric powered winch for raising mainsail/furling mainsail
I'm interested in how many of you with in-boom furling (particularly "Leisurefurl") employ an electric powered winch for raising mainsail/furling mainsail
Thanks
Bob
Hi I have a leisurefurl and manual winch up and down - no real problem to date.
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Rob aka Uncle Bob Sydney Australia.
Life is 10% the cards you are dealt, 90% how you play em
VALIS (Pacific Seacraft 44) has a Leisurefurl and two electric winches on the coach roof. The powered winch does make it much easier to hoist the main. It's not impossible to crank it to the top manually, but I much prefer the electric winch.
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Paul Elliott, S/V VALIS - Pacific Seacraft 44 #16 - Friday Harbor, WA www.sailvalis.com
We have a Profurl system - one of the early ones, we're told. Yes, we've raised the mainsail without the electric winch. No, I'm not eager to do it again - we LOVE our electric winch!
With our furling, you have to keep tension on the furler when raising and lowering the sail - and this makes it all that harder to raise the sail.
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Bill Streep
San Antonio, TX (but cruising) www.janandbill.com