Changing Sails on a Westsail32

Just a quick video about changing sails out at sea. Winds are getting light, and I need more sail, so a bigger sail, the drifter, needs to be rigged and hoisted.
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[@ray8328]

Brilliant, more of these videos please.

[@SailingIntoOblivion]

Thanks, will do

[@robertsalinovich1964]

When I grow up I'm changing my name to Jerome.
Love your videos. Thanks

[@SailingIntoOblivion]

Thanks Rob!!

[@dobbsalexander]

Awesome - great video

[@svglorious]

Looks relatively easy, but throw in a wildly pitching deck and the dead of night and you have something not for the weak at heart or inexperienced. Thanks for showing what to practice.

[@SailingIntoOblivion]

I wish I had some of me taking the sail down when the winds are buiding, that might look more dramatic!

[@svglorious]

@@SailingIntoOblivion You haven’t lived until you’ve gone weightless on the bowsprit of a Westsail 32!😂😂

[@SOLDOZER]

@@svglorious LOL Id rather go weightless on the bowsprit in the middle of he night than pull on the furling line to have it come undone with full sail out.

[@bloomheller22]

Hi, I’m about to change to hanks for a while after a re-rig to see if I like it. I’m going to buy them used although I have one older 135 on my boat that I was thinking I could convert with grommets. Do you recommend adding a bolt rope or do you think that the existing luff tape would be fine? Thanks!

[@SailingIntoOblivion]

That is a tough one, I’m no expert on sails so I would ask a sail maker. Lots of tension and stretch on just a luff tape.

[@jeffreyerwin3665]

I thought the the point of the cutter rig was that one does not have to change headsails. If the wind comes up, drop the jib and just go with the staysail. If the jib and the staysail together are insufficient for light wind, then, perhaps, a roller-fuller would allow for a larger jib that can be reduced in size.
I have played the headsail changing game on a sloop out on the ocean. IMO, that game ought to be avoided whenever possible.

[@SOLDOZER]

Tell that to the two guy who's sails shredded in the Gulf of Mexico the other week, then engine blew up. They had to call for a Coast Guard rescue and abandon ship. If they had hanks they could have just put up another headsail and limped to a port. Now the boat is washed up on a beach in Florida. Theres no perfect solution. But hanks are the most simple and reliable. There no maintenance.

[@jeffreyerwin3665]

@@SOLDOZER I agree and have never owned a roller fuller, but have been hoisted to the top to free up someone else's halyard on the fulller.