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Finally used the RF
On 28 Oct 2003 05:09:51 -0800, (Parallax)
wrote:
I dunno, not being able to fix things easily worries me. I spose
thats why I also drive an old truck with 300,000 miles on it.
What's to fix? Lionheart has a hollow mast with a huge slot cut in
the back of it where the sail comes out. The end of the sail is
pulled out on the huge hollow boom by a "car" that rides on rollers
pulled by a line that wraps around a pulley built into the end outer
end of the boom, an outhaul, which loops back around inside the boom
to the mast so you can pull on it while uncranking the furler.
The furler is a long 2" diameter stainless steel rod running on roller
bearings top and bottom, the bottom a thrust bearing holding up the
vertical load. It's driven by a right-angle bevel gear to a shaft
that comes out the forward side of the mast through another hollow
top-to-bottom hole full of cables. You insert a winch handle into the
handy fitting and either furl or unfurl after pulling a locking pin
out of its hole. This lets you furl it up and sail with any amount of
sail you're comfortable with in heavier weather. The long rod has a
slot cut in it, top to bottom for the sail to slide up into pulled
along by another "car" that is the uphaul, another line over the top.
I probably wouldn't survive it's "breakage". The mast is HUGE and has
SIX shrouds holding it up.....
You don't even have to turn into the wind to furl it......
Larry W4CSC
"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"
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