![]() Its easy enough to use and much more versatile in my opinion. I am considering purchasing a code zero for my Jeanneau Yachts 51 from the French manufacturer Technique Voile, with this sail I will use a Facnor FX 4500 click furling system. If you are reasonably agile at the bow I would highly recommend an asymmetric in a sock. I picked mine up inexpensively off ebay, they don't come up all that frequently, but no one seems to bid on them either. The drifter is useful if you have to point as high as possible into light winds, for me that was only a tiny portion of what I sailed, I would rather bear off a bit and go faster. Innovations inspired by Global Yacht Racing are. In the middle of the range, you pull the luff a bit tighter to keep sail setting as designed. Official CODE-ZERO online store, the nautical fashion brand designed and endorsed by professional sailors. Another use for them was poled out as a double headsail dead down wind, but I only did this a couple times for fun and usually flew the asymmetric let way out and no mainsail. In lighter air, you can ease the luff off a bit to sail at tighter angles. They were the best sail for a close reach into 6-10 knots of wind, but everything from a beam reach down the asymmetric spinnaker was better. I used them instead of the genoa.Īfter initially playing with the drifters I did not use them frequently. So, two Code Zero sails were becoming part of what was already a highly complex choice of reaching sails available to the offshore racing yacht: a masthead Zero or A3 spinnaker for broad. ![]() The drifters stored compactly and allowed me to leave the 110 jib on the cdi furler all year since they were free flying from the spinnaker halyard. I had two different cut nylon drifter/gennakers on my as well as a factory spec doyle jib, genoa and asymmetric.
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