The first thing you notice when you look at the sailplan for the Farr 65, Falken, which Mia and I recently added to the fleet here at 59-North, is the sheer number of headsails. Falken was built in 1999 as a racing boat to go around the world, and the crew would have carried the maximum number of sails allowed by the rules. Of course, none of the sails would have been on furlers—this was the hank-on era—and with a crew of 16, there were plenty of hands to do the wet foredeck work. By my count, I see nine headsails in the drawing, including spinnakers.
We at 59-North, however, are optimizing for performance cruising, not racing, and will not only be installing Reckmann manual headsail furling,, and our Swan 59, .
