I am assuming you have the Plastimo 810 furler with the twin grooves on the foil. It is an excellant furler that stands up to quite a lot. ( If you ever decide to sell it used, let me know. . . )
You will need to check exactly how the furler drum assembly is attached to the bow fitting on your boat. Most Plastimo's use a bracket to attach to the end fitting on the bow, often with a pin through the bow plate, . Usually with that approach the drum and foil are independant of the forestay, and what is holding the drum down is likely to be either a tensioning line, or the effect of the sail as the back lower corner held down by the lines to the blocks on the forward tracks on the toerail or its equivalent on the bow. As for your specific problem, try shoving the furler head up the forestay and getting to the actual termination of the stay and its assorted endpieces. Once there you should be fine. If it won't come out, look carefully at some crackpot's idea of an improvement, something that will bolox up an otherwise good system. Grab your flashlight, shine it on the problem, and it should be easy from there. Enjoy the Plastimo. . . . . . . A somewhat uncommon furler on this side of the Atlantic, though strongly supported by the manufacturer, but a superb furler for the money!! There is a good reason why the Plastimo is the standard brand of furler for most sailboats built in Europe. . . . . . I have had ours for 6 years without any complaint. It is also good for flying twin headsails going downwind if you don't have a spinnaker ( or don't want to sail over it with minimal crew). George George R. Wiltsie, Esq. 302 Clinton House 103 W. Seneca St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607-272-3947 607-272-1685 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] George #2601 "YONDER" 1976 Cataline C27, Tall rig, OB; Trad., Plastimo RF, standard tall rig draft, Raymarine instrumentation Depth, Speed & Wind, VHF, "Baby Catcher" netting. ----- Original Message ----- From: ivan To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:40 PM Subject: catalina27-talk: Plastimo Furler I had my mast stepped today. My forestay has some broken strands at the top. Lesson learned on connecting the jib halyard to the sail instead of the furler head! So anyway I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to get the head stay out of the furler. Does anyone know the magic trick to get the forestay out of this thing? -Ivan
