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Hello all Winkle brig sailors I am planning to put a balanced lugsail rig on WB7 to make sail handing simple, fitting a 80mm diameter marine alloy anodized mast with a higher tabernacle to make the pivot bolt well above the cabin roof, the rig will have shrouds with lashings & a forestay to the stem, no jib or bow sprit will be fitted. Sail area same as gaff main & jib . Two rows reef points in the lug sail. The balanced lug has the boom & top yard fixed to the port side of the mast & they extend in front of the mast. which means when you tack or gybe the spars & sail remain on the port side of the mast. The boom will long  so that the main sheet can fed to the transom & the sail foot laced to the boom. The top yard just has the one thick halyard to raise the sail. Currently getting quotes for the Lugsail.
Dave Hart. WB7. Solway yacht club member .SW Scotland. 01556-660007 or 07399552192.
Would be pleased to hear from other WB owners .
The sail picture below is a standing lugsail version which I have on my Lune whammel