I'm Back!!!

[Florin {VACATIONER}]

Hey Mike,

Nice to hear from you again! I'm glad to hear as well that you are happy in the warmer climates (not necessarily drier hehehe). Did you bring the "WOLF" along with you?

Thanks for the advice!!!

I don't have anything planned for woik tomorrow so me thinks we'll go to HD and get us another big piece of tarp. Then we'll make another main and lapper. Where do I take the measurements for the lapper? Is it to the first shroud or is it to the aft one?

Then we'll go to the local marine hardware shop and we'll buy us some nice fairleads and camcleats for the dual jibsheets (where do I screw those in?).

Then we'll lower the gooseneck by 12" cause we have the room, and make a bigger mainsail. We'll have to lash this one now 'cause it will be tarp as well and we don't really want this one to tear ou again, although we sure enjoyed the loose footed speed we got the other day in fairly light winds.

Cheers mate and watch out for those tailgaters (get a paintball gun).

Florin

[Mike Pennington]

Florin,

I would have to say the best results I've got from the three lappers I've made was the one to the forward stay. If you don't have roller furling then the extra sail gets in the way of clearing the mast. With my stock jib I run the double sheets to the base of the stay threw a coupler with each sheet running down the deck on the inside of the stays. The lapper I have on a manual furler forward of the stock jib, I run the sheets to the base of the back stays.

One can bring in the jib pretty tight, when trying to sqeek a little extra out of a tack Granted I might gain a little by putting the padeye in close to the cabin just ahead of the forward stay, but then that is one more line that can snag a foot in an inconvenient place.

I just might mak another sail too, one without a furler and use it off the forestay, leaving the inner stay disconnected at the base.

I lost the biggest lapper I made in a breeze that I should have known better to try. If I hadn't of had my stock inner stay, which is set to the plans secured, I would have had a distaster. That is why I don't recomend to big of a lapper unless you go over kill on the stay.

Also, if I were making a new lapper, I would raise the mast with a line attached to the jib halyard then run another line from the base of the forestay to where I want the clew of the sail to be. In this way you get the two base angles of your triangular sail and the length of your three sides. Keep in mind that the closer the sail is to the angle of the deck the more wind you are using, however your also making a blind spot and you want to clear any deck ornaments that might need to duck as the sail flies overhead.

Mike

[Florin {VACATIONER}]

So why is it called a "LAPPER" then?

[capt jake]

It laps past the mast.

[Florin {VACATIONER}]

Aha!!! That makes sense!

Thanks