FWIW, My main's sail slides are nylon and I spray the mast groove with MackLube and I sail solo 90% of the time. I hoist the main from either the cockpit or at the mast by hand. I use a winch to put the final tension on the luff, but not to hoist it up. Hoisting by hand is so much faster. The sail weighs 60# but I'm not pulling the entire weight until the head is very near the top of the mast. (My main is 330 Sq Ft compared to a 44's 410 sq ft.)
Chuck Scheaffer > On 01/26/2021 4:33 PM Don Newman via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > > Milwaukee 90 degree Hole Hawg will hoist my main to the top. I have to > finish manually. > It means that I don't have to leave the cockpit to pull it up by hand > when solo. > Manually grinding it up would be a killer. > > It will hoist a person up (others have done it). > > -- > Don Newman > C&C 44 > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help > with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu >
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
