How to attach the gennaker

Bjørn, very interesting to hear about your experience in Greifswald, we did take delivery th 22. of April and they then did not know how to solve this. I did not have my gennaker at that time so it was not a priority then.

In yesterdays regatta we just made a rope around the anker-roller (the black, rubber wheel in the middel. Not at all a good solution. We did have 15-18 knots of wind and where doing 70-80 degrees so it was heavy pressur on the anchor-roller but it did not flex as I could see. I guess it might when you put a hold in one of the sides. Well, I dont like this solution and have been talking to my dealer how says that J&W, have told Hanse that the same solution as the 370 and 400 whould not be strong enhough on the 320 and the 350, therefore they did put on an anchor-roller that is designed to take the pressure.

I did take my 350 up from the sea today, next week we will fix the epoxy-primer and antifouling. In that case I discovered today that Hanse dont except VC17 because it contains to much cobber and therefore it is a riske for metal-components on the boat, espesially the aluminimum rodder and the saildrive. Well, a dissapointment but I have dropped my plan to use VC17

Edited by bjoris - 21 May 2008 at 23:00

Thank you Br00tus,

That’s good to hear.

It would be very kind of you if you could explain in more detail how you mount your gennaker to the bow roller. You mentioned a small hole, but I didn’t really understand which hole you meant.

Is it a hole in one of the side walls of your bow roller?

Edited by bjornludvigsen - 22 May 2008 at 20:08

According to the Norwegian dealer there are two types of bowroller, just one of them are designed to handel a gennaker. Mine that flex quite a lot when stepping on it was not designed for a gennaker. I have no got a Selden GennakerPin... I`ll be back with pictures. I have not tested it jet...

We are flying the Genn from the Anchor roller, the stainless mount wall thickness is 6mm and more than strong enough to hold the Genn and board the boat when needed. Compaired with a 400 which is also moored in our harbour, our anchor roller is at least twice as thick.
Was a liitle PO'd when I dicovered the Genn pin (connector) was not mounted on our boat, now I'm very happy with the robust fixture.
Theoretically mounting the Genn a little to Port should not be ideal, but in practice you won't know the difference.
We are flying the genn. on A Karver KF1 single line roller.

Regards, Rob

Seems like this is a common problem, in mine the bow fitting for the gennaker pin is not there, so I bought the gennaker package and have the pin, but nowhere to place. I am waiting for a solution from the Spanish importer.