Mark, Do you have a sail stop in your collection of boat parts? If not West Marine will be happy to sell you one, I'd buy a couple they are cheap & tend to get lost. A small round clamp that fastens itself to the mast groove, between whichever sail slide you need to retain & no more will your sail drop out the bottom.
Sail like there's no tomorrow Wayne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Pavuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:42 PM Subject: M_Boats: maiden voyage > Yesterday my friend and I took Cherri's Jubilee out for the first > time. We had trailered it to a marina to do bottom paint, change the > pennant, and put in the pivot pin. I also added a red boot stripe, so > now she looks really flashy. We motored out of the marina, turned into > the wind, tried to raise the main, and all hell broke loose, so to > speak. The main sail slides kept slipping out of the mast, which also > caused the boom to come out of the mast, plus we had mistakenly released > the topping lift. I'm sure you all can imagine what those few minutes > were like, until we decided to start over again. My point is how do you > raise the sail without the slides falling out? My other boat had some > sort of "clasp" type thing that held them in unless released, but this > has nothing. I couldn't even raise the sail all the way up because the > bottom one would slip out. With all that, she sailed beautifully, even > with just the main up (I didn't want any more surprises by that time and > decided to wait till next time for the jib). I also am missing a genoa > block and don't know how and where to replace that - West Marine? > While in the marina, the boat got alot of attention and questions, > even from some of the 30 - 40 ' sailboat owners. Some were interested in > getting one for sailing in the bay. > > Cherri Pavuk > Cherri's Jubilee, M-15 #322 > Toms River, NJ > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats > _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
