Northeaster Dory Sloop mainsail

I need everyones opinion. I have been advised that I should have reef points on the mainsail of my Northeaster Dory sloop rig. The person advising this, feels that this necessary due the boat's light weight and lack of ballast. 

Your thoughts please.

Rob


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RE: Northeaster Dory Sloop mainsail

If you're buying the sails from CLC, you'll already have reef points. They became standard in November 2015.

The NE Dory page also goes on to say that taking in the jib is the first reef. So you've already got essentially 2 sets of reefing points - the jib and the reef points in the main.

Finally, the dory hull shape has tremendous secondary stability. There's a picture somewhere here of SilverSalt standing up in his NE Dory. The more the boat heels, the more stable it gets (until water comes over the gunnel, of course).

So in answer to your questions, as long as you got your kit/sails after November 2015, you already have the reef points; and the boat is a lot more stable than its weight and feel when you get in would make you think.

Have fun,

Laszlo

 

RE: Northeaster Dory Sloop mainsail

   Laszlo:

I did not realize that CLC offered that. I got my boat and sails from CLC prior to 2015.

Thanks for the update.

 

Rob

RE: Northeaster Dory Sloop mainsail

Rob,

Oh the joy of being an early adopter. Well, at least you've had 10 years or so fun out of your boat. And, now that you know that CLC agrees with you, it's easier to justify the effort of adding reef points.

I added a brailing line to my sprit sail on my Brand X sailing dinghy and it was pretty easy to do. I did it by hand because I wanted to avoid the cost of buying a sewing machine. I ended up buying a sailmaker's palm, needles, thread, beeswax, a brass grommet kit and some sail cloth. Mr. Internet had more instructions than I could ever hope to use in a lifetime. All told, I spent less than $100 on tools and materials. 14 years of inflation has probably increased that. The only thing you'll have to get that I didn't is a bit more sailcloth and the actual reefing lines.

Or a professional sail loft could do it all in a couple of hours once you get on their schedule.

Don't forget to look into setting up for jiffy reefing.

Laszlo

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