Many of the newer cruising sailboats in the 40-ft-and-up sizes are built with double headstays in the bow with one roller furling located behind another. The forward roller-furling stay carries a big ...

For many years, the standard technique for handling cruising spinnakers has been the ubiquitous and often awkward “sock,” which is a way to deploy and strike a spinnaker in a controlled manner, ...

Rope clutches and two-speed self-tailing winches streamline sailhandling, as does gathering up the lazy jacks after setting the mainsail. Ralph Naranjo Most of us monohull sailors don't let on that we ...