Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

wrote in message ...
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:39:57 -0500, "Simple Simon"
wrote:

I'm a cruising sailor who has little need for
hi-tech racing crap and even less use for
comments such as yours from the Peanut Gallery.

Actually, you are no sailor at all. That's why you know so little
about sailing.


How the hell does a cruising sailor store a Mylar sail
on the boom without causing damage?

See if you can figure out a solution to this intractable problem! LOL!


Go ahead and laugh you sorry PUTZ! You only demonstrate
how completely ignorant you are about cruising. It is clear
to me that you have never had the guts to go cruising. You
are just another wannabe, landlocked daysailor like most
of the others around here.

A cruising sailor needs to have his sails at the ready
when he's anchored for the night, for example, in
case a storm comes up and he has to get underway
in a hurry so as not to be exposed on a lee shore.

With a stupid Mylar sail stored rolled around the boom
the cruising sailor would have to spend valuable time
struggling to get the damned thing back into or onto
the track which means feeding slugs or slides and
hoping things don't jam in the process. This is not
anything a smart cruiser would volunteer for.

It is only daysailors and racers who can abide this
type of dangerous system just so they can claim
a few tenths of a knot more speed around the
buoys. Pathetic and lubberly the whole way round.

S.Simon

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

You
are just another wannabe, landlocked daysailor like most
of the others around here.

In all the YEARS I've been posting here you have yet to go ANYWHERE.
Other's have posted short trip accounts with pics. My little trip to the
Thimble Islands was TINY, but still more sailing than you've been doing.
You've claimed that you'd be soon setting off, but never have. Your credibility
here is ZERO.

RB

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

Hey, stupid, I spent six months cruising the Bahamas last year
and even posted links to pictures and cruising logs.

Where were you? At MacDonald's stuffing your face?
Or maybe you and BillyJane were fornicating?

S.Simon


"Bobsprit" wrote in message ...
You
are just another wannabe, landlocked daysailor like most
of the others around here.

In all the YEARS I've been posting here you have yet to go ANYWHERE.
Other's have posted short trip accounts with pics. My little trip to the
Thimble Islands was TINY, but still more sailing than you've been doing.
You've claimed that you'd be soon setting off, but never have. Your credibility
here is ZERO.

RB

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

Hey, stupid, I spent six months cruising the Bahamas last year
and even posted links to pictures and cruising logs.

6 months, while still posting daily?
Oh, I see.

RB

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

The only way
to store Mylar safely is rolled in a loose role.

Yes, it's like old nitrate film stock. It's quite dangerous when rolled
tightly!

RB

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

How the hell does a cruising sailor store a Mylar sail
on the boom without causing damage?

Not true. Hell, I know people who flake Kevlar mains on the boom.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
Trains are a winter sport

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

If it's a wind up jenny why is it left flapping?

Cheers MC

Simple Simon wrote:

Light air performance? Gimme a break with that!

I bet NONE of these wannabe sailors around here
do anything in light air but crank up the motor.

I've yet to see any diesel sailboat sailing at one
or two knot. To the boat they use the iron jenny
with a wind-up jenny flapping in the apparent
breeze.

Unless you race, Mylar is not worth the money
and maintenance problems.

S.Simon


"Poppa Pimple" wrote in message hlink.net...

Superior light air performance. 40% amortized over the life of the sail is
zilch.
Also look at resale value.

Poppa

"The Carrolls" wrote in message
.. .

Why? I am not a racer, they cost about 40% more than dacron, what do I get
for my money?
"Poppa Pimple" wrote in message
arthlink.net...

Very much so.

Poppa


"The Carrolls" wrote in message
.. .

Well are they?

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

Mylar has a memory, stupid. Roll it too tightly and it tends to
want to stay that way. Since it is a laminate in the case of sails,
tightly rolling it has a tendency to cause delamination.

Lord, but you people are idiots.

S.Simon


"Bobsprit" wrote in message ...
The only way
to store Mylar safely is rolled in a loose role.

Yes, it's like old nitrate film stock. It's quite dangerous when rolled
tightly!

RB

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

It is clear
to me that you have never had the guts to go cruising..

Most people here like to bathe every day. Go cruising.


S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
Trains are a winter sport

Mylar Sails, Worth the cost?
 

Then you know sailors who are not concerned about
the longevity of their sails . . .

S.Simon


"SAIL LOCO" wrote in message ...
How the hell does a cruising sailor store a Mylar sail
on the boom without causing damage?

Not true. Hell, I know people who flake Kevlar mains on the boom.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
Trains are a winter sport