![]() ![]() I need to take pics, I'll add it as a mod when the pages are up again. If the foot is not attached to the boom, the rig is known as loose footed. The entire foot of the sail may be attached to the boom or just the clew. High-Grade Nylon sail shackles- screw fixing and snap fixing. Nylon Jib Twist on Hank, Sailmakers Nylon headboards for Spinnakers and Mainsails. Batten Hardware made of High-Grade Nylon batten protectors. I need to find a way to make a more accurate moulding - maybe an impression in GRP. The clew (back corner) of the sail attaches to the free end of the boom. Sail slugs are designed to go inside a track and sail slides are designed to wrap around the outside of a track. They don't work quite as well as I'd like, sometimes a slug will get jammed on them. They stay in place with a piece of bungie round the mast. To avoid the need for a slug stopper I've also shaped a couple of strips of plastic moulding that clip onto each side of the open part of the gate, thus allowing the slugs to run past but stop them coming out. I suspect the Catalina mast being discussed is a lighter-weight extrusion too. The idea was to feed the sail into the mast prior to attaching the gooseneck, I felt this was a bit too extreme. This involved hammering the standard gate closed along its entire length, and opening one up below the boom using something like a tyre lever. Mainsails: Check headboard, tack, and clew rings. I got the idea from a site discussing Catalinas (can't remember where now), where an even more drastic operation was proposed - to move the gate to below the boom. Broken, chipped or worn hardware could fail and cause the sail to rip across a seam. Bastonjock wrote:rick,did you just give the openning in the mast 40 whacks with a mallet?īut yes, if you whack each side where the channel is opened up to form the gate, it will go back to the normal width. ![]()
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