Are you buying the dacron sails?

I'd maybe be tempted by the headsail, but leave that kevlar PITA to
someone with a race crew onboard.


I'm meeting with Mark P. of Doyle later this week to look over my rig.
My old mylar is OLD and the 110 is shot. The Mylar main is also done.
Why is the kevlar main a PITA? I'd think that the pentax mylar genoa
would be more fragile and take a bigger beating. The Kevlar main would
still work with the stackpack.


RB

Well, you are really showing us how little you know about sails if you have
to even ask these questions.
You go out for short daysails with your wife and kid and you are talking
about Mylar, Dacron etc when all you need for what you do is a decent set of
ordinary sails.
My boat came with many sails from its days as a round-the -buoys racer and I
have, among other sails two nice Mack and Doyle Mylar genoas in my basement
and four huge spinnakers none of which will ever see the light of day unless
I decide to take extra crew aboard since normally I cruise my 38 footer with
just my wife as crew and neither of us is exactly young.
You should get used to the idea that you are just a family day sailer and
not even likely to become a serious cruising man for a few years yet.

"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
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Are you buying the dacron sails?

I'd maybe be tempted by the headsail, but leave that kevlar PITA to
someone with a race crew onboard.


I'm meeting with Mark P. of Doyle later this week to look over my rig.
My old mylar is OLD and the 110 is shot. The Mylar main is also done.
Why is the kevlar main a PITA? I'd think that the pentax mylar genoa
would be more fragile and take a bigger beating. The Kevlar main would
still work with the stackpack.


RB

You should get used to the idea that you are just a family day sailer
and
not even likely to become a serious cruising man for a few years yet.



Edgar, I'm used to that idea. But others here can't except it though
they actually appear to sail and even cruise less that we do.
Even if we're off for a daysail it's still fun to play with more
advanced gear. I was out on a J29 a few days ago...very high tech sails
and gear. We were out for maybe 3 hours and had a total blast. Are
those sails wasted because he's not racing them? Of course not.
Especially since we sail so often. In fact with our shorter sails,
performance gives us more fun per minute on the water.


RB
35s5
NY