CS34 Stack Pack

Marilyn from Maribay Designs has made a stack pack for her boat and several others in the club.  The stack pack design she has mounts on the boom and has integrated lazy jacks to control and contain the main sail is it is dropped.   Bare boat chartering on a Beneteau 473 in the BVIs that had one of these, I was AMAZED how easy it was to drop/flake/zipup the sailcover with one of these stack packs.

Before Marilyn came over, I had to attach using aluminum rivets the tracks that would hold the cover on using bolt rope.

Took a couple of hours to cut, place, and rivet to the boom:

Notice how the reef lines are fitted between the track.

Marilyn came by at around 10am and did a test fit and marked where to finish off the aft section of the cover.  While she was back at her shop, I fitted the lazy jacks.  Unfortunately, when hooking up the port side, I pulled the line out of the block 2/3 up the mast.  It was blowing 20+ knots from the NW, so I couldn't go up the mast in a bosun's chair.

She came back a little after lunch, and I love the results!

The front connecting panel is a little baggy but she will fix it when we get back from our cruise.

The colour matched the old canvas really well.

To drop the main with the stack pack cover and lazy jacks, you just head into the wind, drop the sail into the cover, and zip it up at the top.  VERY EASY!

Thanks Marilyn!