The argument for an inner forestay

11:05 PM Sat 31 Jul 2010 GMT

'Furling headsail' .

Like the boat pictured here, many cruising boats have a roller furling genoa as our primary headsail. This is excellent for short handed crews, and the single headsail works well until the wind starts to blow hard and then the combination of too much sail and not enough crew can make things difficult and unpleasant. Getting rid of the big genoa is usually easy thanks to roller furling but what do you do then? Changing sails on the furling unit is a daunting task when short-handed and sailboats don't power particularly well in a big sea. The advantages of having ...

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by Adam Loory, UK-Halsey Sailmakers/Sail-World