On Mar 17, 7:29 pm, Charlie Morgan wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:15:27 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"





wrote:

"Scotty" w@u wrote in message
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Ed, it is good advice to tie an extra line around a RF sail
when leaving the boat for a while. Many, many, many (
Many,many,many) sails that have been shredded could have
been saved.

Scotty

Not a single hank-on sail has been shredded because they are removed and
stored below. That's the way sails are supposed to be taken care of. Not
wound up around the head stay and out in the elements when not being
used.

Yes, I've seen many times how hanked on sails are cared for. It's not pretty.
Wet, dirty and either quicky stuffed in a bag to molder, or crunched up and
stuffed through the forward hatch. Roller furling is MUCH kinder to head sails.

Coming from someone who spends an hour maintaing his brightwork on a
C&C I would expect you are surrounded by lazy sailors. Un hanking
flaking, folding and bagging a jib and putting it in a dry sail locker
only takes a few minutes.

Rollup head sails are for lazy sailors. They ruin the shape of the
sail, they have to have sunbrella sewed to the exposed edges, they get
stuck, ect..ect..ect



I always have several wraps of the sheets PLUS a sail tie.

Just how high can you reach with your sail tie? I
I've seen many shredded to peices that had "A" sail tie, in high
winds.


There is no issue
with removing the sail tie, because every competent captain does a walk around
of the boat before leaving the dock or mooring. Only a complete lubber would
argue with this.

Only a lubber would think leaving your sails out in the weather, and
putting a tie around is better then properly storing them in a sail
locker.

Joe

I expect that Neal/Nellen/Wilbur the uber-lubber will have
something to say!

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