On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:10:18 +1000, The Captains Master wrote:

On 13 Aug 2003 01:01:32 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

Thanks for all of the replies. The person who's thinking of a in mast system is
elderly and has a bad hand. He was actually looking at an electric furling
system retrofitted to a Cal 35. I've printed the non-troll answers for him.

Thanks again,

RB

Well if you had stated that in the first instance you might have more
sensible replies!

Smacks of another troll Bubbles.

Yeah, what I thought.

Get the book 'Time on Ice' be Rolf Bjelke and Deb Shapiro. They
converted to in-mast roller furling and did a lot of heavy weather
sailing including Palmer Peninsula. The book was published in 1991
(IIRC). They're in Hobart at the moment, still have the Selden in-mast
furling gear. I've had a good look at their yacht - a Moitessier
'Joshua' hull. Nice cruising boat.

Personally I wouldn't do it - more things to go wrong and a real bitch
to fix. Also expensive. However, Deb Shapiro isn't very big/strong
(her admission) and the roller furling means she can handle the sails
without calling the off-watch person to help.

Peter Wiley