Lots of people have questions about reefing correctly. Great job with the video. All the best Greetings from Greece. Best Ed and Patricia

Doing it this way will have problems on most yachts. When the halyard is being lowered the reef line should be taken in at the same time or there is loose reef lines hanging off the boom and quite likely to get caught. If skipping a reef, like going straight to reef 2 then as the halyard is slowly dropped both reef lines 1and 2 need to be bought in taking up the slack as the sail comes down then reef 2 is tightened down. What was completely omitted was the halyard needs to be tightened after the reefing.

Great video, I’d love to see an example under way, say where you’re off shore and strong winds have crept up and you need to reef in a hirry

Thank you for this information, it’s been great!

Excellent step-by-step instructions on reefing!! Thank you for the video!!!

Great video. Thanks.

Great video. Thank you 😊

Fantastic Video, Thanks

Great videos and super helpful ! Thanks!!

Thank you! A lot of videos talk about reefing but don't explain what it is. Your video is very informative. Thank you!

Great video. Thank you very much. i practically learned sailing through your videos.

love these videos as we are thinking of buying a lagoon cat so its great to see it done on a lagoon.

Nice job

Thanks for your videos btw, great work

Perfectly explained - thank you

Totally AMAZING video! Just got my lic and these videos you have uploaded, are Wonderful!!! Thanks a LOT!!!

Thank you very much, this was really useful to me

Well done! I have never sailed, so this was so informative!

Excellent video, very informative, very easy to follow, thank you so much!

Thank you so much for explaining the terminology! I always hear these terms on the videos that I watch and everyone assumes that we all know how to sail, but we don't all know how to sail!

Excellent instructions, thank you very much for this video!

Really enjoy your videos. Very easy to listen to as you speak so clearly and explain things with such clarity. Would love you to do the B&G chart plotter.

Easy peasy! I like the fact that you guys do this, so many dealers don't go the extra mile like this. We'd be half tempted to go through you when we do it, and we are actually leaning toward Lagoon's offerings, with Fountaine-Pajot as our second choice now.

Great video, thank you. Very clear explanation makes the complex topic easily understood. Now we need to practice, practice and practice

so when you moving from reef 1 to reef 2 what do you do with reef 1 line? just keep in the same position or release? thank you.

Great job in explaining and demonstrating reefing. Something any sailor had better know to keep them and the crew out of a really bad situation.

Thank you!

thank u very much indeed !!

wow this makes sense now! i was wondering what the hell is a Reef, i understood it was basically lowering the mainsail but what i didn't getis, how low do you go? but this helped out a lot!!!

Good and informative! To make it 100% you should have gone the other way around as well and hoisting the sail again.

Awesome

Thanks I like.

Would love to see information on other reefing methods, even if it's just a comparison against single line, maybe with some diagrams, if not on actual boats (since I believe that single line is far more common than other methods). Also, I would love to see talk about main furling options. Boom furling seems considerably uncommon on cats (presumably because of the need for a vang), but I would love to see it compared with in-mast and the non-furled options.

Great video. Are there no ties/lines attached at the boom on those reefing points?

Very well done. Clear and concise. Useful topic too just to refresh the procedure. Would you tighten the main halyard after taking the reef or accept it as good after taking a particular reef. Great work thank you.

Get tutorial. The closeups of the reefing points and angles of the reef lines were very helpful to verify a good reef position with minimal chafe.

I really enjoy watching your videos. I just took delivery of a new L46 from France and have quickly grown to enjoy sailing it. Im quite new to catamaran sailing and the slab reefing system. I have a question regarding how to stow the reefing lines when I bring down the sail. Some sailors I talked to told me to just let the reefing lines hang down as I bring down the sail and just pack them into the sailbag with the sail after anchoring. The problem I have with this is there are occassions where the reefing lines gets entangled with each other or with the lazy jack lines or the sail bag straps so that the next time i raise the sail i have to deal with these tangled lines in the middle of raising the sail. Would it be better to pull down the reefing lines at the mast end while I bring down the sail? But will be needing an extra hand if I do this approach

Great video, thanks for sharing. Couple of questions. As you put consecutive reefs on do you recommend easing the previous ones? i.e. after reef #2 is one do you ease reef#1 to take it easy on the sail? and what is ballpark proportion to take reefs on the jib as you do reefing on the main ? ie as you take reef#1 on the main - how many round on the jib furler you take to reduce the jib sail area?

Excellent videos but reefing is often the other vagary around.You leave the dock in strong winds and immediately pull the sail into a reef,rather than dropping down.

Great video on reducing sail to a reef point.please do a video on the opposite putting in a reef from no sail raised. Is it the same technique using the main halyard to raise?

Congrats for the video, very clear and informative. One question - under even more severe wind conditions, say 40-50knots, could you go beyond reef 3 or even lower the main completely? I've seen a video on such a situation where the crew lowered all sails completely. Thanks again

Thanks a lots I had to rig a lagoon 42 (helping a neighbor in the ponton)and I caught a lot of details in this video if you see this comment I would like to know how the clew is attach at the bottom of the sail . By advance thank you

Great tutorial.. thank you. We had lots of problems with the reefing lines on our 42. Nothing in this video tells me we did anything wrong. Eventually we changed all the reefing lines for 10 mm Dyneema and replaced the six rings on the sail for 50 mm blocks. We still have a slight chaffe at the front of the boom and have fitted Dyneema sleeves at those points. Hopefully sorted now !!

A couple not picking comments. Marking halyards is a great idea but in my experience whipping doesn’t go through my Lewmar clutches. Second point, one often has to reef (or drop) the main on a broad reach particularly if you are a gentleman sailor who avoids beating to windward. On my first boat, a Crowther tri, one could drop or reef the main by first loosening the halyard, and then turn downwind accelerating, which would unload the slides and the main would fall down to whatever you loosened the halyard. This can avoid having to turn the boat across swell and increase apparent wind, which can be scary. Unfortunately my current boat with batten cars refuses to co-operate with this technique. Finally, I’ve always found jiffy reefing less effort than anticipated, but still it’s a lot different and more difficult doing the reefing when the boat is rocking around with a combination of rising wind waves, swell and 35kts+ real wind. The BIG thing about reefing is that you never regret doing it.

Try reefing and tying up the sail on a three mast topsail schooner with heavy, wet, cotton sails as the wind picks up in the dark on the middle of the Atlantic. I did that, and as you can see I am very proud of it 😁

Excellent, do you need to reduce tension in the previous reefs when enacting the next reef or just leave them be?

I notice you did not mention tightening the topping lift before dropping the halyard. Is this not something you need to do on the 42? On my lagoon, if I fail to tighten the topping lift then when i lower the halyard the back of the boom will start to fall.

Should you take up The slack on reef one and two lines to or should you leave them in their reefed position? On my monohull, Iused to pull them in just to keep everything tidy.

great video guys, as always. just a question, if I may... I thought the 3rd reef on the L42 was not single line, but rather an eyelet at the luff that hooks to the mast? did they change this recently?

Im Envious that the Lagoon has single line reefs for the 2nd and the 3rd reefs and do not have to go to the mast to put in a strop.

Definite!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="150">02:30</a> Boom-Bag? As well known as LAZY-BAG!

Good explanation. Thanks. Question... I keep hearing not to run a double reefed main with 100% jib. Do you know why that is said. It is in the Lagoon owners manual and I’ve been told by several people. I’m thinking some structural reason but I’d like someone in the know to lend some input. Thanks so much.

Is there slack in reef lines 2 and 3 that needs to be pulled in also when setting up reef 1? Thanks for the video!

Did you have to release the other reef lines when you went to 2 & 3?

WOW COOL, THANKS Now I know how to REEF @ Anchor 🙄

Is the topping lift at the end of the boom opposite the mast always connected or is it only connected prior to reefing?

what is the most popular way of marking the lines? is there a purpose made product for this?

Question: I would like to sail solo a lot of the time. Are in mast or in boom furling main sails an option for catamarans?

Dear friends, what is the best technique to reef when is sailing downwind?

I notice that you don’t use the topping lift at all when reefing Would the boom not drop too much without its use I always lift a bit then reef and adjust then ease the topping lift again Is this wrong??

? No mention of first tensioning the topping lift and releasing it when the process is done to regain control of the leech? Your comment please.

This sounds like Elayna from LaVagabond !

On my lagoon 39 I don’t have a spectical or what ever you call that

do you have a school that someone can attend? If not can you recommend a school. My experience is KZfaq only.

What's the best way to mark a halyard that doesn't jam stuff up and doesn't come off?

one "gaff" i have noticed here!!- at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="394">6:34</a> you just drop the halyard!!- you forgot to tension the Topping lift, if you DON'T do this the boom will crash down to the deck, ( the LEACH of the sail is what holds the boom up while the sail is raised {100% up}), SOME boats have a ROD or hydraulic boom vang, which negates the above steps to some degree, you do NOT say if this boat has a fixed vang or not, HAVE to assume a rope vang in this case :-) .

ELEYNA???

Enjoyed this but didn’t mention shaking out reefs when you don’t need them which can be awkward and tiresome .

Well if you have to read the manual to know when to reef you are far too inexperienced to take charge of a big catamaran like that.