{"id":12309,"date":"2010-07-22T00:08:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=12309"},"modified":"2015-10-16T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:46:51","slug":"mariner-furling-with-hanked-on-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/mariner-furling-with-hanked-on-sails\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariner Furling with Hanked on sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve,<br \/>\nThe Bayfield 32 I recently bought has old Mariner furling units on both the head sail and the stay sail. These allow easy (relatively) changes of sail configuration as they allow hanked-on sails.  I know that you had used and recommended these units in the past and I was wondering if you still had praise for them? What if any trade-offs am I making if I keep them?  It seems to me that they might have issues as stay tension is increased.  They seem to work, but as I&#8217;m a new sailor and this is my first sailboat, I have nothing to compare them to.  Thanks<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>The Mariner system, if structurally sound and the bearings still working, is excellent. Easy sail changing and less weight and windage aloft, and you have it.<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, The Bayfield 32 I recently bought has old Mariner furling units on both the head sail and the stay <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/mariner-furling-with-hanked-on-sails\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35939,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions\/35939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}