{"id":17003,"date":"2011-08-03T22:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T03:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=17003"},"modified":"2011-08-03T22:28:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T03:28:41","slug":"fat-head-mainsails-cruising-hardware-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fat-head-mainsails-cruising-hardware-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Head Mainsails &#8211; Cruising Hardware Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Answer-to-fat-head-mainsails.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Answer-to-fat-head-mainsails.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Answer to fat head mainsails\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have been admirers of the efficiency of fat head (squared top) mainsails for years. The problem in a cruising context was the top batten, When hoisting or lowering it tended to jam, often requiring someone aloft to administer assistance. When furling a fat head the headboard needed to be detached from the mast to allow the upper batten to lie down. There may be an answer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We saw this hardware on a new yacht in Camden, Maine. The skipper says the sail goes up and down without a fuss, and as you can see here, when the halyard is released the sail can be flaked in a normal manner.<\/p>\n<p>The spars are from Hall and the sailmakers, where this hardware originated, are part \u00a0of the Doyle group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been admirers of the efficiency of fat head (squared top) mainsails for years. The problem in a cruising <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fat-head-mainsails-cruising-hardware-answer\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003"}],"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=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}