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(Thom Stewart) wrote in message ...
Joe,

Just freeing the bolt rope from the boom track doesn't make a standard
cut main a free footed main. You still have the the bolt rope that
gathers the cloth which had been cut to and sewn. It does help to lower
the set of the sail some what.

Yeah I know that. I bought my sails new. They were made as free footed sails.

It doesn't have the clew and tack corners constructed as well as the
true free footed main.

Hell, I can lift my boat out of the water by the sail corners if needed.

Ole Thom

Joe