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In-Mast Furling
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:10:18 +1000, The Captains Master wrote:
On 13 Aug 2003 01:01:32 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote: Thanks for all of the replies. The person who's thinking of a in mast system is elderly and has a bad hand. He was actually looking at an electric furling system retrofitted to a Cal 35. I've printed the non-troll answers for him. Thanks again, RB Well if you had stated that in the first instance you might have more sensible replies! Smacks of another troll Bubbles. Yeah, what I thought. Get the book 'Time on Ice' be Rolf Bjelke and Deb Shapiro. They converted to in-mast roller furling and did a lot of heavy weather sailing including Palmer Peninsula. The book was published in 1991 (IIRC). They're in Hobart at the moment, still have the Selden in-mast furling gear. I've had a good look at their yacht - a Moitessier 'Joshua' hull. Nice cruising boat. Personally I wouldn't do it - more things to go wrong and a real bitch to fix. Also expensive. However, Deb Shapiro isn't very big/strong (her admission) and the roller furling means she can handle the sails without calling the off-watch person to help. Peter Wiley |
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