Let's not forget that a furling line can chafe through, a line you thought was
cleated properly might not be, genoa sheets can flap badly in heavy wind and
cause extra stress, and I've even heard some folk recommend against cleating
the genoa sheets using the self-tailers due the potential for
Rick,
I think that this is unfair to point this out
Here we had about 10 cm of snow on Wednesday, rain today and below freezing for
the next week, at least.
Marek
Ottawa, ON
From: Rick Brass via CnC-List
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2019 13:06
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Cc: Rick Brass
Subject: Re:
Maybe it’s just that I’m getting old and irascible, but I have developed a
pretty low appreciation of the intelligence and wisdom of my fellow man.
Think about how dumb the average person you meet seems to be; and then consider
that the fact that this is the average means half are even
Keeping a jib up and furled when the boat is hauled out for the season
makes no sense to me etiher. From a wear perspective as well as increase
of windage.
Out of curiosity, has anyone seen jibs unfurl when tightly wrapped with 10
or so wraps of cleated jib sheets wrapped around the winches and
My furler (old Harken) has a hole in the drum and the outer case that line up
when furled, I just pop a small carabiner through and there's zero chance it
can un-furl. I just need to remember to remove it before attempting to unfurl.
Your furler may have something similar.
Cheers,
Paul.
This happens here too. If I were an insurance underwriter I would want to
exclude this sort of damage as leaving a jib on the furler with boat stored is
not good practice. It seems to be a great way to have insurance pay for a new
sail … unless of course it destroys the dock system or causes
Glenn,
The quadrant ( or radial drive wheel) and rudder post should have a precision
interference fit which is made by having the bore of the quadrant machined
.002-.003” undersized. In this way, the clamping tolerance prevents the
quadrant from slipping on the post. Any key and keyway cut
I have seen so many jobs unfurl and shred over the years both in Monroe Harbor
in Chicago and down here in Florida that I'm surprised that:1. yards allow
people to store boats with jobs still on the furler;2. people haven't learned
to safety tie their job when leaving the boat.Why aren't
Regarding the questions on rudder quadrants, I had slack in the steering of
our C 41 (WeGo). I climbed into the mouse hole and barely got to the
adjustment nuts. I tightened a bit, checked it, tightened, checked it... it
didn't improve the situation. What created almost all of the slack was the
