THE PAINE DVT
INTRODUCING CHUCK PAINE’S FIRST INVENTION- THE PAINE DVT!
The PAINE DVT at work.
The PAINE DVT (stands for Dang Vang Thangs) are a series of fiberglass battens extending all the way from the leech to the foot of a jib. They have the following characteristics:
1. They are parallel to the luff of the jib, thereby permitting it to be roller- furled.
2. They extend from the leech to the foot of the sail, thereby preventing the foot of the sail rising up as the jib sheet is paid out.
3. They are both cheap to install and effective. They cost perhaps one- twentieth the price of other means of preventing the jib-boom from rising, are visually unobtrusive, and do not present a clumsy and sometimes dangerous impediment to the use of the foredeck as is the case with other systems.
Off the wind, the sail goes OUT, not UP!
Note that when sailing wing and wing, the entire jib remains perpendicular to the wind. A conventional jib would be overtrimmed and stalled at the bottom, while the top would be out too far and ineffective.
Even let out this much, the angle of the sail to the wind is nearly constant from foot to head.
French and Webb are the first licensed users of the PAINE DVT. York Marine will follow in the Spring, fitting this marvelous invention to their new Paine Design, the York 18.
The York 18 will feature the newly invented PAINE DVT jib vanging devices and a roller-furling jib.
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