Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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Many thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out last week’s survey on in-boom mainsail furling systems. Of those who answered, 16% have in-boom systems and those skippers rate the systems at 4.6 stars out of 5. Of those who do not have an in-boom system, 22% are considering retrofitting one to their rig.\u00a0 Asked to comments on in-boom furling, readers replied:<\/p>\n
“Easy to reef and raise and lower if the boom angle is correct.”<\/p>\n
“Easy sail management (up\/down), highly variable reefing, ability to reef sailing dead down wind, no gymnastics re sail-cover. Luff tape replacement is a maintenance item (4-5 yrs for us).”<\/p>\n
“It is easy to use with and electric winch. I would never do it with out an electric winch.”<\/p>\n
“I can raise and reef main alone and remain in the cockpit. Especially good for an old guy sailing single handed!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0 Do you carry a life raft on your boat? Many thanks to all readers who took the time to fill out last week’s survey on in-boom mainsail furling systems. Of those who answered, 16% have in-boom systems and those skippers rate the systems at 4.6 stars out of 5. Of those who do not have an in-boom system, 22% are considering retrofitting one to their rig.\u00a0 Asked to comments on in-boom furling, readers replied: “Easy to reef and raise and lower if the boom angle is correct.” “Easy sail management (up\/down), highly variable reefing, ability to reef sailing dead down wind, no gymnastics re sail-cover. Luff tape replacement is a maintenance item (4-5 yrs for us).” “It is easy to use with and electric winch. I would never do it with out an electric winch.” “I can raise and reef main alone and remain in the cockpit. Especially good for an old guy sailing single handed!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41412,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41408\/revisions\/41412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}