{"id":1382,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:08:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:08:50","slug":"lowering-main-while-sailing-downwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/lowering-main-while-sailing-downwind\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowering Main While Sailing Downwind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p> Hello Everybody! I own a Hallberg Rassy 352 located in the Med, and I&#8217;d like to pose a question: Do you know a working solution to lower the main while sailing downwind? My sail has plastic tracks inside the mast. Fair Winds, Gennaro<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Gennaro: The best system is to have a &quot;tag&quot; line to the headboard of the mainsail. You can then pull this line down with a winch to force the main down. If you are just reefing, use a long luff tensioner to your reef tack point (or points) and winch this line down. Regards&#8211;Steve <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everybody! I own a Hallberg Rassy 352 located in the Med, and I&#8217;d like to pose a question: Do <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/lowering-main-while-sailing-downwind\/\">&#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":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-sails-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"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=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36160,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/36160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}