{"id":1366,"date":"2015-09-22T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2015-09-22T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:49:58","slug":"furling-line-overwrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/general\/furling-line-overwrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Furling Line Overwrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twice in the past two weeks I have received after hours calls on the emergency line with the same problem, an overwrap in the jib furling drum\u00a0preventing the jib from being rolled up.\u00a0 In both cases, the boat was docked safely and the overwrap taken care of, however, prevention would have eliminated quite a bit of anxiety on the part of the skippers.<\/p>\n

Most cases of jib furler overwrap are caused by either by allowing the furler to “free spool” while\u00a0the jib is deployed or by leaving slack in the line after the jib is out.\u00a0 To prevent an overwrap,\u00a0put a little restraining tension on the furling line as the jib is deployed.\u00a0 Don’t let the jib come out too fast.\u00a0 Once deployed, remove all slack from the furling line before cleating it securely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twice in the past two weeks I have received after hours calls on the emergency line with the same problem, an overwrap in the jib furling drum\u00a0preventing the jib from being rolled up.\u00a0 In both cases, the boat was docked … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-skippers-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}