I assume you are referring to something like the Doyle Stack Pack, not sure of the cost but I too would be interested to know.

I have thought of this ,will be looking forward to the answers. If you have one how good does it work and any problems?

Hi,
I had one made by Indy canvas and it works fine the only thing that you have to be careful of is you have to be pretty much dead into the wind if you have full battens which I do. I have found that if you let the main fly free it is much easier to raise even if you are not quite dead into the wind. Dropping the main is a snap though. Indy canvas was easy to work with and very reasonable compared to some of the other vendors.

Well we really like our Lazy Jacks. Manage the main very well - BUT could use the extra leg (4th) at the rear instead of the current 3 to manage the full battens and the aft part of the main better. I looked at the Doyle Stack pack at last years Strictly Sail in Chicago - it was very nice - but pricey too!

I looked at all the options for sailbag/lazy jacks at the Annapolis boat show a couple of years ago. Mack Sails "Mack Pack" was the least expensive by a fair margin. Some variants of the stack pack use battens along the top of the bag that the Mack product does not have, and I was intially concerned that it may not work as well with out them. After having the Mack Pack on my boat for two seasons now, I'm very happy with it. Its not quite a drop-n-zip process, but it is at least a one person operation, and if you had to drop the sail in a real hurry it would at stay off the deck until you could attend to it. Dousing and flaking our sail used to take both my wife and I several difficult minutes and getting the cover on took a few more. With the Mack Pack, either of us can can douse and stow the sail alone.

Chic Lasser on this list is a rep for Mack and was able to offer me an even more competitive price than was offered at the boat show.

Lazy Jacks Trick

Many folks complain about full battens getting caught up when raising the mainsail. They then spend a lot of time moving BOTH sides of the lazy jacks to the mast.

We developed an easier way with our lazy jacks.

We have a small cleat on the forward starboard side of the boom. When we put the halyard on the headboard, we move ONLY the starboard side of the lazy jacks forward and snug them under the forward side of the horn of this cleat.

Then, when we raise the mainsail, instead of going exactly head to wind, we bear off a tad to starboard so the wind is coming from the port side of the bow.

We then raise the mainsail and it doesn't get hooked on the lazy jacks even though the port side jacks are still there.

Been working for 13 years.

Yes, we have to go forward again to unhook the starboard lazy jack for dousing the sail, but there's never any hurry.

So, for those of you with lazy jacks, consider doing only one side.

Your boat, your choice.

True if you could reposition the line on a boom cover that incorporates a lazy jack system but most boom covers that are rigged that don't allow for that type of movement as the lines are attached to he cover fwiw

[QUOTE=ciscocat;14585]True if you could reposition the line on a boom cover that incorporates a lazy jack system but most boom covers that are rigged that don't allow for that type of movement as the lines are attached to he cover fwiw[/QUOTE]

My Mack Pack is designed so the jacks can be stowed along the mast and boom and the bag rolled up neatly alongside the boom, if you want to go to that effort. The bag/liines are completely out of the way and pretty inconspicuous when stowed that way.

For most cruising, I don't bother, but when we do overnight distance racing I will stow the jacks and bag.

There is a photo of my boat on the C36IA site with the sail stowed and the jacks/bag in place and here is a link to a photo of Palmetto Moon with the sail raised and the jacks/bag stowed.

[url]http://www.photoboatgallery.net/p676440409/h38bf4cd6#h30029552[/url]

nice set up, i'll have to look in to modifiying what i have to perform the same function

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