"Simple Simon" wrote in message

| Nice pics. Good on you for using real, hank-on sails.

Hank ons are the mark of a Pro...... or someone too poor to afford R/F....
;-D

After years of hank ons and lack of self tailers... I'm getting to a point
of considering running my current forestay to the tip of the bowsprit and
adding a removable inner stay. I thought about R/F on the forestay and hank
on self tending on the inner. I have just a tiny bit of weather helm and I
think I could make the changes without increasing it too much. I'm also
considering going to larger size self tailing winches....

| Good Photoshop job on the speedometer, too.

No alterations Cappy..... I was on a broad reach. The WX channel stated 10
to 15 kts. The sea state sort of confirms it. I was trying to get the
display when it showed 8.2 kts.... damn that delay on the digital camera. I
was averaging about the speed shown for most of the sail. I didn't get much
past 5.5 knots on the reach out of Prospect. I was flying my 150 and full
main... with the prop locked and towing a 500 lb Dory.

CM