Originally Posted by
brianb
Hi Alan,
I have often wondered about headfoils and will they blow up if the loads applied are different than the design load ?
Brian
OK, so here' s my thought on that.... It's a twin-groove headfoil, yes? So I can hoist two headsails at a time, one in each groove. I can then pole them out and go wing-and wing that way. But if I do that, the loads on the two headsails are trying to pry open the headfoil, and I'd be concerned that it'd come off of the forestay.
But with this rig...two 1.5 ounce nylon sails sewed to a single luff tape, there are no forces trying to pry open the headfoil, so I *think* it should be OK.
BTW, I had intended to fly all this with 1) twin chicken stays (basically just a line with a bit of purchase on it that will take, say 500 lbs load or something) from the mast track rings to the toerails, and not use a spinnaker net. However, if I'm gonna move the rings way up on the mast, the angle that the chicken stays work at becomes less advantageous. However, they're so easy to rig, that I figure I'll just do them anyway.
i was also going to do all this with the main up, with a reef in it, as well. Then again, I've never tried it, so what do I know?
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