Boom .. Sail Storage

[ChuckO]

Ahoy ! 
           As a new 16-2 owner  .. I can use some ideas where I can store my Boom and Sails between outings.  I keep my boat under roof in my garage and am always looking for ways to cut down my rigging time. Do you leave the mainsail on the boom or remove it?  If you remove it  ... do you roll or fold? Jib .. roll or fold? How about the boom?  Do you attach it to the mast or ?? when on the road?

ChuckO'
CP-16-2 Carpe Diem
Charleston, SC

[JTMeissner]

ChuckO', I'm trying to get quicker in rigging too... up to a point.

Right now, with the boat on a trailer in a storage unit between sails, we pull everything down.  Mast goes on a homemade bracket and is tied down to the boat/trailer and pulpit.  Boom is ferried back and forth in the bed of my truck (along with outboard).  Sails removed, folded, bagged, and stored in boat (jib, genoa, and main).  Everything secured before rolling out the five miles between storage and ramps.

I have a very large storage unit, so the boom just gets put on some boxes between sails.  I have just laid it on the trailer before or just placed in the cockpit, but all travel is in the truck. I've been pondering a new set of brackets so the boom and mast are both carried on the boat.  If the sails get wet, I take them home to dry before folding and bagging.

I've never had much luck with rolling on the boom, especially since it seems like I'd have to be careful with the battens which may have to be removed.  Not sure that saves a whole lot of time.

I guess I accept a certain amount of necessary preparation on both sides of sailing adventures to prevent larger issues in the future.  It's part of the "work" of sailing, just as much as my power boat friends think the entire sailing process is a lot of "work." 

To make rigging really fast, my wife and I are looking at keeping the boat in the water at a marina.  Mainsail could be left flaked on boom and covered, jib/genoa bagged and ready in boat (or furled if so equipped), only have to make sure outboard has gas...  But the additional dollar cost versus my prep/tear-down time hasn't worked out in favor of marina storage.

-Justin

[mattman]

I keep the main flaked on the boom and put into a polytarp bag that stays in the back of the truck (under the tonoue). The jib is rolled and goes into a similar bag. Best of luck.

[deisher6]

I kept the boom in a pice of pvc pipe with a threaded plug on one end, cap on the other end.  I used zip ties to attach the pipe to the trailer.  You can also see where we mounted the motor in front to the boat on the trailer.  Best thing that I found for hauling the mast was the mast crutch attachment for the ida rudder.



regards charlie

[Short Sale]

To secure the rigging for trailering, I remove the mainsail from the boom and I stuff it, not fold it, into a sail bag along with the jib.  The sail bag is left in the cabin. The mast is lowered and secured to the pulpit at the bow with some of the halyards and a homemade boom crutch positioned over the lazerette hatch near the stern.  I then lash the boom to the mast and tighten the mainsheet.  This puts enough downward pressure on the mast and boom to hold it securely in the crutch.  I use some of the halyard and the topping lift to loop around the mast and gather up the side stays and the forestay. The loose end of the mainsheet is wrapped around the port cleat, up and over the mast, boom, and crutch, then down to the starboard cleat.  The last bit of mainsheet is then wrapped a few times around the tiller handle to hold it securely and then tied off on the port cleat.

This is secure for the highway, but it is not fast.

George

[ChuckO]

Ahoy All,

Trying out a new possible sail storage method.

As I still prefer rolling rather than folding  ... after a recent sail - I left the foot of the sail attached to the boom via the bolt rope and rolled the mainsail around a 4" pool noodle beginning at the sail head.
I then attached the rolled sail to the Boom with bungee sail ties.  Seems to make a nice tidy bundle. 

As I garage store and rain is not a concern, I will store the "Boom/Sail Bundle" in the cockpit and hang it from the bottom of the mast when traveling.

ChuckO'
CP 16/2 Carpe Diem
Charleston, SC