Continuous Line Furler - can it be reefed?

[Dennis.G]

Originally Posted by Rakuflames

Do you mean replace the headsail with an asym on the roller furler?

They are usually used in addition to regular headsail. When furled they can also be lowered and put away if you want.

[sjk1000]

Yes they can be reefed easily by cleating off the "end" of the loop at the cockpit at the point on the line you want it to stop unfurling.

Part of the installation should be a dedicated cleat.

[zippy]

I have been reefing my Hood continuous line furler for 20 years and have never had a problem with it.


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[hugosalt]

Have been using my Cruising Design continuous line furler since boat new 30 years ago.
Knowing this is a low end unit, for years I asked my rigger "think its time to replace"
he always checked out and respond "no need".
Used to worry about possibly unfurling but over years came to trust unit after holding
reef numerous times in heavy winds up to 50 knots.
Loop always cleated at cockpit.

[pete c]

My "new" '88 Hunter Legend 35 has a continuous furler. It is the below deck level type, which I have seen numerous negative comments about, but the seller tells me it hasn't given him the slightest bit of trouble in 22 years. Says it's never even jammed.

Guess I'll find out about it next year when I splash it. Till then I will play around with it on the hard.

My guess is that if you are gonna run just a little bit of jib, say 20-30 percent, it would hold fine, but if you try to run 75%, especially with a very big jib, you'd run into issues as it does have an awful lot of force trying to unfurl it at that point.