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Wing on Wing - Head Sails
Wing on Wing - Head Sails
Down wind with Headsails
Down wind with Headsails
This is my favourite downwind rig in heavy condition.
I normally carry a heavy jib on my roller furler, pictured above. I will then hank on either my staysail or my storm jib to the staysail sail stay.
Using this combination I can sail downwind in up to 60 knots of True wind quite comfortably, I just keep reducing sail until I just have the storm jib or a tiny amount of the roller furler out. Above 60 knots of true wind, I will try bare poles but I prefer a little bit of sail.
What I dont like: The only thing I don't like is TinTin can get a nasty roll going every so often when its really lumpy, it always feel like there are 5 hard rolls then it's back to a gentle roll for 30 minutes then another nasty roll.
What I do like: This down wind combo is very easy to manage as a solo sailor, it's gentle on my gear and easy on my autopilot, I hardly use any power as my autopilot is not working very hard as TinTin is pulled from the Bow.
Wing on Wing - Head sail and Main
Wing on Wing - Head sail and Main
Head Sail and main
Head Sail and main
Just trying to squeeze a little more out of my headsails in very light conditions in Bass Straight.
I could have flown my larger spinnaker but I knew a wind shift was coming.
Every sailor uses the main and headsail, as a solo sailor it can be more difficult to reduce the main if it blows up quicky. That is why I prefer the twin head sail.
In fluky conditions keeping the main up makes sense we had a major wind shift not long after this photo was taken resulting in us being hard on the wind for the next 8 hrs.
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