thor,
I want to sell my Harken unit, which is a split drum, and go with a tuff luff. Since it is off my J/30, it would be a real easy fit to your J/30.
We just dont use it like we thought we would, for family sailing with us two & the two kids, but it's great for that. It has seen light use for about 2 or 3 summers on freshwater Lake Michigan. I would like to have you take the entire kit including the foil, stay, furling line pulley kit, etc. I can dis-assemble the extruded. foil for shipping. It breaks down into 3 or 4 sections.
It is a fine well-engineered unit, and operates very nicely. It is a furling unit, meaning you take a tuck in the sail to reduce area. Or not. It can be nice, when coupled with the backstay, to turn your #1 into a #2, and jack down the backstay, you really have a large range of depower when you need it.
To oversimplify, either your sails furl or they dont. If they dont they are too short, and the easy answer is a short length of wire (pennant) so the halyard exits the sheave box toward the top swivel at a roughly 45 degree angle.
Please contact me here:
delltodd (at) ameritech.net
Thank you.
Dell
