Ron,
You're not a pest. Questions are why this list exists and flourishes. In
addition to Stu's diligence.
However, I suspect your spinnaker is not a 3 oz chute. 3/4 oz perhaps?
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
>________________________________
> From: Ron Kaye <ronkaye...@gmail.com>
>To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
>Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:36 PM
>Subject: Stus-List A question regarding a sail
>
>
>
>Thanks for all the great info on the 4000 Autohelm. I'm thinking it might be
>a magnetic disturbance of the compass and I think I might have stowed a
>head-mounted flashlight in the chart table. Maybe... I hope that's it. We
>shall see this weekend when we get back for another trip.
>
>As for the sail, the boat came with a tri-radial spinnaker. The real deal.
>I think the PPO may have been into racing but the PO and the CO's are not. The
>PO said he'd never raised the thing in 12 years.
>
>At this point, Lisa and I don't want to wrestle with a full on spinnaker if
>the wind pipes up and we have to get it under control in a hurry since it will
>usually be the two of us or the two of us and if there are others they won't
>know anything about sailing. So... a crusising spinnaker I believe is what we
>need. I'd like to get a used one and will check Bacon in Annapolis.
>
>If anyone would like to trade sails, I'd give up the tri-radial spinnaker for
>a asymmetrical of appropriate size. Its solid red. 3 oz, and seems to be
>well made amd in very good condition from what I've seen of it but I admit we
>haven't pulled the whole thing out of the bag. Its a Doyle sail. We are near
>Annapolis.
>
>As far as connecting it, we have a typical roller furler on for the genoa and
>a custom anchor roller sprit with a nice large piece of stainless that I could
>drill into to connect the tack with a few feet of line to allow it to rise up
>a bit to see under. Is that about right?
>
>From what I've heard, Bacon has the info to size the sail appropriately for
>make and model of boat but I'd like to hear any opinions from the list as
>well.
>
>Thanks again. Sorry to be a pests with all these questions.
>
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>Ron & Lisa
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