§2024-10-15

• How to take off the Mail Sail

For the Dragonfly 28, the foot length of the mainsail is typically around 10 to 11 feet (approximately 3 to 3.4 meters).

1. 19min:55 How to take off the MainSheet

• main sail clew

• reef one starts from the cockpit(port side)

• at the front of boom on port side, reef one line goes out here

• the it goes up into the reef one ring, port sode

• then it goes down through this ring

• then through this,

• then through this stopper

• at the back of the boom, reef one(red) is coming out on the port side

• then it goes all the way to the reef one ring at the end of main sail

• then reef one line comes down and tie it to the starboard sid of the boom, in fron tof the clew!

• this is where main sheet in attached to ??

• lazyline starts here

• then lazyjack line goes to the top, through thid ring then scomes down

• then through this ring to go to the startboard side

• the it goes up to the lazyjack ring and comes down

• the lazyjack line is fastgened here

• once the main sail is fully hoisted, loosen the lazyjack line

• now, pulling the reef one line out by untying the knots first.

• pull the reef one line out from the main sail. Pull it all out!

• do not forget to figure-eight know at the end of of reef one sheet

• pull the reef one out of the stopper all the way and tidy it up

• take out the reef two line in the font of mast, startboard

• just pull it all out

• we are ready to release mainsail from boom

• untie the knots at the end of boom

• strap off