J/30 Class Association Forums J/30 Forum The Boat, Sails and Equipment how to make sail raising easier

Echoing Vic's comments. I also can pass on some things I've learned from experience and other boats.

• Lazy Jacks - kind of a cruising thing that make the main sail folding (with slugs) easier. The disadvantage is unless you keep the boat pointed into the wind and watch carefully, it's easy to get battens caught in the lazy jacks. This means you end up wasting time incrementally raising and lowering the sail to get them unstuck.
• Batten Tension - Too tight and it twists the slugs on the way up, too loose and they aren't as effective.
• Slugs - I use the straight type that are sewn in for my everyday sail. I've also seen the ones with the pivot joints - these are more trouble than they are worth as the pivot joints dont align the slug well when raising and lowering the main.
• McLube - I spray it periodically on the bolt rope and tracks. It doesn't collect and gum up.
• Jib Furling - Many have done it, I haven't. It works and is convenient with the single sail usually sized somewhere around 130 to 150%, but is actually more difficult if you want to make a sail change