"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
easolutions...
I've had sliders get stuck even though everything looked fine... just
backed off a bit , then tried again, and it went fine.

Try sailcote also...

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I've done that too, but I figure if a slide sticks going up, it could
also stick coming down -- and that could be very bad news indeed.


I've never had that problem...a quick tug on the sail, and down it comes.

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Agree about the sailcote, btw -- I swear by it, and spray it on pretty
much anything that's supposed to move. Getting back to the stuck sails,
though, I sailed on an Irwin 42 once that had been having "sticking slide"
problems. Slides would stick going up, we'd ease the halyard a bit, tug on
the luff, haul away again, ease the halyard again, tug the luff again,
eventually it'd hoist all the way. Skipper wasn't worried about it, said
it happened all the time. Coming back into port we got ready to drop the
main, and it wouldn't budge. Couldn't go higher, wouldn't drop no matter
what we did. Came into the slip with the main up and several people on the
finger ready to catch lines and pull her in.

In the end it turned out that the top headboard slug was really, really
bunged up and wasn't going anywhere. Had to disconnect it to get the sail
to drop. Don't know what the final fix was, but it could have been much
worse if we had been trying to reef in rising wind. I'm assuming that
there was some galling of the internal track near the top of the hoist
that caused the slug to get mangled.



I can imagine. When I finally, finally get around to hauling, I'm going to
have them do some minor work at the masthead (including running some spare
wire), so this'll be a good opportunity to make sure all is in order.

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