Hi Danelle, Just so you don't think slugs are the unanimous choice of the group, there are a few of us who prefer boltrope.
I grew up (many, many years ago) sailing Thistles and other boats with boltrope mains. Storm Petrel was my first real experience with slugs. I tried them, and think I gave them a fair chance, but left them out when I ordered a new main. I let the boat drift on the starboard "tack" to raise the main. As Howard says, she just sails slowly along with the mainsheet loose. A shot of silicone spray in mast slot in the spring, after cleaning out dirt and spider nests, helps a bit. Bill Riker M15 - #184 Storm Petrel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danelle Landis Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: M_Boats: help with slug order Thanks Thomas, Howard, Paint4real and Ron for the pointer to Sailrite! I should have just looked in the archives - I remember sailrite mentioned here before. Thanks for patiently writing it for me again though. Thanks to Howard too, for the ideas on sail handling/raising, etc. I have to admit that I knew that the 150 genny was likely to be overkill the day I went out singlehanding, but I also have to admit that I was hoping for an exciting, wild ride that day. Most of the three-hour trip was just brisk breeze and some mild breezes too, but when the breeze came up for that one stretch - I got just what I was looking for. I was laughing out loud at a couple of points, just because I'd missed the excitement of hang-on-for-dear-life sailing over these last years. I do have a regular (not storm) jib that I use normally. It was ridiculously fun being over the top that day, but was a little worried about breaking the boat somehow since I'm still so new to it, and she is old. I do need to practice my reefing system too, my main has one only one line of reef points. Danelle "Ceto" M17 #378 Ketchikan, AK http://web.mac.com/anniesark9/Site/Sailing_Ceto.html _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
