What is a Code Zero Furler?

Code 0 Furlers A Code 0, also known as the tight luffed furler, is a great sail, but can be difficult to handle due to its large size and angles. The Code 0 furler is a great way to manage this sail and make using it a breeze. You can hoist the furled sail and deploy it easily and quickly.

What is a Code Zero sail used for?

The Code Zero is a cross between a genoa and an asymmetrical spinnaker that is used for sailing close to the wind in light air. Code Zero was initially an attempt to circumvent a rating rule by making a large genoa for close reaching on boats that were measured with non-overlapping genaos.

What is a furling gennaker?

Top-down Gennaker Furling systems can make ripping downwind even more accessible for cruising crews and shorthanded sailors as well as as offshore and ocean racers. Gennaker furlers work by attaching an asymmetrical spinnaker to an Anti-Torsion furling cable or rope and hoisting it aloft on a halyard.

What is a code zero paramedic?

Paramedics respond to emergency calls and transport patients to the hospital but they must remain with the patient until the hospital takes over care and, during that time, they are unavailable for other emergencies. At it’s worst, having no available emergency response is called a “code zero”.

Is a gennaker an asymmetrical spinnaker?

A gennaker is a sail that was developed around 1990. Used when sailing downwind, it is a cross between a genoa and a spinnaker. It is not symmetric like a true spinnaker but is asymmetric like a genoa, but the gennaker is not attached to the forestay like a jib or genoa.

What is the difference between a gennaker & spinnaker?

In short, a gennaker has a genoa’s form (asymmetric, head and tack pinned, sheets tied to the clew) with the wide girth of a spinnaker. The gennaker is an all-purpose downwind sail, while spinnakers are built for specific downwind apparent wind angles.

What is the difference between a spinnaker and a gennaker?

How does a top down Furler work?

To furl, a deck-level sheave driven by a looped line spins the furling cable, winding the sail around the line starting at the head and working its way to the deck, giving it the name top-down furler.

Is gennaker a spinnaker?

What is a bottom up Furler?

Bottom-up Furlers Bottom-up systems work the same way your conventional headsail roller furling system works, except that instead of aluminum foils wrapped around a fixed stay, a torsional rope is used. The tack is fixed to the drum at the bottom. The rope runs up inside the luff of the sail.

Can you furl a spinnaker?

In light winds, you can have the spinnaker hoisted and ready to go. As soon as you turn down, all you have to do is release the furling line, pull on the sheet, and voila!

When to use gennaker VS Code Zero?

If you are entering in the position which is slightly lower then maximum up‐wind course, light (er) conditions, too high to gain optimum speed for Gennaker, then is perfect moment for Code Zero. For Code Zero, we can say is even 1 step easier to use then Gennaker.

What is the difference between code 0 and Genoa headsails?

With Code Zero, you are in position to achieve much more speed in lower angels then with Genoa / Jib. The maximum wind angle for a Code 0 is approximately 120 degrees wind angle. So the choice of headsail on half-wind courses, space sheets or downwind courses depends on the course.

Is it safe to use a gennaker on a boat?

If the wind freshens up, you can drop down to a wind angle of 165 degrees with a gennaker. By the way, with a recovery hose, setting and recovering a gennaker is very easy and safe for any cruising sailor and professional with a small crew.

What is the difference between a gennaker and a luff?

A gennaker is cut asymmetrically. The neck on the luff is firmly attached to the bow, or better yet, to the bowsprit, the two sheets to the clew, and clearly the halyard to the head. Due to its asymmetrical design, you can sail higher upwind with gennaker than with a spinnaker, although the sail area is almost the same.