Fitting a Trysail track to the Mast

 

The problem appears to be for my rigger is that he feels the twist in the track needed to get the track from the side of the mast below the stowed main to around towards the back of the mast above the stacked main will be hard to achieve on a Hanse mast.  Has anyone experienced this problem and found a solution. 

 

Fitting a Trysail track to my mast apparently will be harder than most due to the Harken V track I have had installed making the track wider when the stacked main is....meaning the trysail track has further to twist around.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions of what sort of track to use and how to bend the track to fit the twist needed.

 

Pictures would be a great assistance.

I will also install a try sail track! It was highly recommended by North sails and as you know I 100% agree. I have exactly the same configuration with your boat plus additional problem of a carbon mast. Avoiding the gooseneck and split main track shouldn't be a problem since you can bend the track-the slides are short and they will follow the curved track without sticking.

Here is a picture of the Selden solution.

 

Whilst having it makes us feel good, even this 3rd reef was maybe OTT as so far we've never found a weather situations where the 3rd reef was actually used.

 

Cheers

JOHN 

In my opinion there is no possibility to extend the track to deck, mainly because of the huge gooseneck and the ropes to mast foot. This limits the advantage of the separate try sail track. Feeding the cars that are already attached to the sail is almost impossible in a storm, so IMHO the only option is to attach hooks to the try sail and hook them into the cars that are permanently parked in the track.During this operation the sail can be wrapped in a rope so that it doesn't flap around. You have to calculate how high the top one will be, and how a person will reach up there to do the job. I think that I will have the same- or even bigger- problems with my boat. If this is impossible another possibility is to feed 6 to 8 cars in the tack, attach a few sail hooks on the cars and rise the sail 2-3 meters. Then attach another 6/8 cars and so on. The sail will flap around like crazy but the person will be standing in front of it in safety.

I'm not arguing against caution, but has anyone on this site ever had to resort to a trysail in bad conditions?

On one past yacht were I had to retire once from a race, and dismantle the gooseneck to use a fitting to fix a rudder issue, we reverted to our trysail and regular headsail to get home.

But in maybe 25 years - goodness knows how many miles covered - and most of them racing in all kinds of conditions - not once needed the trysail in storm force conditions.  In all we've covered a 3rd reef has worked fine.

In another thread people are discussing where to store a gennaker - so where does one find the added space for a rarely (if ever) used stiff trysail? 

All MHO of course.

Cheers

 

JOHN