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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.

Im sorry ol Thom, I see what your saying.

I thought he was going to buy a new main, thus the only difference is
he removes the track if needed off his main boom. If it had slugs than
you have to do nothing. Perhaps install a stouter outhaul system at
the end of his boom.

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

Agreed, all the load is now on the end of the boom, corner of the
sail.

Joe

Ole Thom