[Rhodes22-list] mast

[Mary Lou Troy]

Gene,
We got the IMF with new sails when we bought our recycled 1991 R22 Fretless 
in 1998. We were initially skeptical of the IMF but Stan convinced us to 
give it a try. It has a few shortcomings in the performance (lack of 
battens, roach and vang) but it makes up for it in convenience. There are a 
couple of tricks to getting it to furl smoothly every time (angle of the 
boom (up & down and port to starboard) and keeping things lubricated - we 
use Sail Kote on the moving parts and the mast slot once a season) but once 
we learned those we haven't had any problems. There have been a couple of 
times reefing it under load that I thought for sure it would hang up but it 
hasn't. We've been very pleased.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Ft. Washington, PA / Swan Creek, MD

At 06:48 PM 12/12/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>looking for votes, ideas, opinions about the pros /cons of 'regular' main 
>mast or inner mast furling. how often does the main sail get hung up when 
>trying to reef with inner mast furling. If I get a used or recycled 22 I 
>would like to have this knowledge ahead of time. thanx,gene
>
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