I am going to be buying at least a new head sail this winter and I have been reviewing my measurements prior to starting discussions with different sail makers.
At a minimum I believe I discovered that I have a tall rig and not a standard rig as I assumed. As all my info when I bought the boat three years listed it as a standard rig. My existing sails luffs may not be evidence of that, but my fiber glass tape measures seem to bear that out. Plus my boom measures to the tall rig length.
I also stumbled onto the fact the MKI owner's manual has extra sail data that the MKII manual doesn't have such as the luff / leach / L.P. Glad I found that to compare my measurements against.
So I started measuring my existing sails. I assumed that they were the OEM sails. But I might be wrong, because if they are the original sails then it appears that they should be for a standard rig.
The main luff measures 39'3" and the 155% genoa measures 45'3". Could be a small margin of error, but I think I am pretty close.
I then measured my boom and max luff on the main halyard. The boom was around 13'6" (depending on exactly was pieces you include in the overall length). The max luff on the main was 41'6" to the pin on the boom.
I then measured the max luff on the jib halyard at 46'2", I should add that I have the Schaefer roller furling.
How does this compare to others?
The measurements from the MKI list the luff of the 155% genoa as 47' and the main as 41'. So my main measurement was close, but the jib was off by 10 inches if that measure was suppose to be with a roller furling.
I have attached a JPG of the MKI measurements for reference.
Thanks for everyone's feedback in advance.
Ralph Rye
1999 C36 MKII - Tall Rig - Fin Keel
Hull#1813
Green Bay, WI

Ralph; FYI
My boat is the same year as yours. Tall rig. I had a new 135 genoa built just last year by UK Sailmakers. The luff measurement for the 135 came in at 45' 1"".
Howard
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