INTRODUCING CHUCK PAINE’S INVENTION- THE PAINE DVT!
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 and reefed. These battens reduce the “bagging” that so irritatingly occurs when a jib is roller-reefed.
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 more clumsy means of preventing the jib-boom from rising, are visually unobtrusive, and do not present a bulky and sometimes dangerous impediment to the use of the foredeck as is the case with other systems.
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Off the wind, the sail goes OUT, not UP!
- Note that when sailing wing and wing, the entire jib remains more or less 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.
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Even let out this much, the angle of the sail to the wind is nearly constant from foot to head.
This shows it really well. The entire jib goes out, not just the top. There is just the right amount of twist remaining in the sail to have the telltales all streaming from top to bottom.
French and Webb Boatbuilders of Belfast, Maine and York Marine of Rockland, Maine are the first licensed users of the PAINE DVT.
This shows a Levant 15 reefed down for sailing in strong winds. Note that the jib’s shape is not compromised when roller- reefed. The presence of the full height battens prevents the jib from getting baggy, which always happens with jibs not fitted with the Paine DVT.
- The York 18 features the newly invented PAINE DVT jib vanging devices and a roller-furling and reefable jib.