For those who can sew, Sailrite has a video on its website on how to make your own.
Joel 35/3 Annapolis On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Daniel Sheer via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Got a stack pack for an existing loose footed main from Chuck O'Malley at > Chesapeake Sailmakers in Annapolis. Works wonderfully. Drop and zip. Cake > to put on and take off. Can be rolled up at the boom for racing with little > effort. Reasonable price. Chuck is great to work with. Highly recommended. > Only additional requirement is plates on the mast to cover the gate and > retain the slides. Made them out of 3/16 (or 1/4, don't remember) aluminum > in an hour. Chuck would'a made them, but I chose to do it meself. Arrgh! > > Dan Sheer > Pegathy - LF 38 > Rock Creek off the Patapsco > > ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:37:58 +0000 > From: "Hoyt, Mike" <mike.h...@impgroup.com> > To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Subject: Re: Stus-List Doyle Stack Pack or Mack Pack? > Message-ID: > <169e312f80b4c044be2dc1780a7de72f104...@hfxexc11.impgroup.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Josh > > The zippers and canvas that is built into the sail > > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Josh > Muckley via CnC-List > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 10:16 AM > To: C&C List > Cc: Josh Muckley > Subject: Re: Stus-List Doyle Stack Pack or Mack Pack? > > > Mike, > > I can't see anything that sets the stack pack apart from any other sail > pack or any reason that the main would need modified. I looked and looked > at the Doyle website marketing (videos and text). The only thing which > seems to be "needed" is a loose footed mainsail. Even that might not be > mandatory. > > What are you seeing that makes you think otherwise? > > Josh Muckley > S/V Sea Hawk > 1989 C&C 37+ > Solomons, MD > On Dec 10, 2015 8:55 AM, "Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com > <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: > I was looking at the Doyle Stack Pack information on their web site. It > indicates that an existing sail can be converted to a stack pack sail. > > Persistence came with lazy jacks (since removed but still available for > reinstallation). Also have an older UK Tape Drive main as well as an almost > new Quantum main. This past season we used the older main for deliveries, > everyday sailing and Wednesday racing and kept the new main for regattas > etc ? Had noted a friend with aFrers 33 has a Doyle Stack Pack for > deliveries and casual sailing and it has good enough sail shape for limited > racing as well. Have been considering a stack pack main at some time for > cruising. > > Has anyone here converted an existing sail to a stack pack? Any thoughts > on feasibility of converting an older UK Tape Drive to stack pack? Any > ideas on cost and if at the end of life for that sail the stack pack > components can be used on another sail? > > I know that the previous season we found the lazy jacks a pain that were > always in the way and that last season with just two of us flaking the main > was a major PITA esp when entering a narrow channel or looking to anchor. > > Thoughts? > > Mike > Persistence > 1987 Frers 33 > Halifax, NS > > Formerly > Nut Case 1987 J27 > Full Tilt 2 1979 Hinterhoeller Niagara 26 > Monkey Bear 1974 Paceship P23 > Full Tilt 1970s McVay Minuette > Blue Horizon No. 1 1981 C&C 36 (family boat) > High Hopes 1979 Spirit 28 (family boat) > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > > -- Joel 301 541 8551
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