I recently installed roller furling on my '38 and find myself with a two year old Jasper and Bailey jib for sale. Since I won’t be needing it I am including the
Camber Spar also. The only caveat is that the jib hoist on my boat was extended appr. 10 feet by the previous owner so it would need to be cut down to fit the standard hoist. Fortunately there isn’t much material in those last ten feet so the modification should be fairly easy. Sail is in very good condition and I would be willing to part with both for $1200 or about half what I paid new.
you can reach me at bart@gunboat.com.
Would like to hear more about your roller furling jib installation… also any pictures greatly appreciated. We are thinking about adding r/f to our 1991 F38. Did you stay with self tacking or go with overlapping sail? Hard extrusions or flexible furler? Are you concerned with whip load of flexible mast on extrusions?
thanks,
Bob
I found an inexpensive used jib that fit the “J” of the old jib and had the proper furling luff. It is slightly smaller however and when I tried to leave it self tending the sheet seemed to pull down more than aft. So I had a couple spectra loops made up (28 inches) and attached them to the rails with shackles along with some lightweight harken blocks. This allows me to bring the leach closer to the mast. The lazy sheet then can be tensioned like a barbour hauler. Although I now must tack each side, they both come back to the cockpit right next to each other and I am getting considerably better performance than with the camberspar. Needless to say when single handing I do not have to risk a dunking when striking the jib.
Sorry I missed the rest of your question. It is a hard furler and the hoist is so low the whip effect doesn’t seem to be an issue. To be safer I am keeping the furler relaxed a bit. At twenty knots apparent it seems to be ok.