I was fortunate to come across this old sail plan. There are a few Currawong owners, on the forum so I thought it might be of interest. Also shown is Ramona's plan ( although the scan is a bit distorted making the bow look banana shaped).
It seems the original design had a mast much further back than in the production boats. None of the Currawongs that I have seen were ever rigged like this. The only difference I have noticed is that some forestays come right to the tip of the bow and others come about 6" back (like mine), but none as drawn below.
The sail plan would have had the crew alternate from the outer to inner forestays as they moved through the sail plan. The stay sails are on two different inner forestays. If you look carefully there is a No 6 stay sail that sets on a forestay attached at the same place at the baby stay. I wonder what was the purpose of this No 6 sail ? Without running back stays, would it have been strong enough for use as storm sail ? Interesting.
My forestay goes right to the bow. I also have the ringbolts for the inner stay and I have a baby stay rigged. I have a staysail that uses the innerstay ringbolt that was used under the spinnaker. I should imagine if a storm headsail was used on the inner stay the trysail would counter act the forces somewhat. At the moment I have a storm jib on my table just getting the finishing touches. It's only small and the idea is to use the inner stay and topping lift winched tight. Works fine on my mooring!
