[Rhodes22-list] mast

[ronald]

Well, this is another reason to put off buying new sails for a while. I
will be interested to see how it turns out.


Ron Lipton
On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 11:08 AM, General Boats wrote:

> Well, I was not going to mention it - yet - and still won't.
>
> but I have come up with a new IMF main sail proprietary design
>
> it gets the main sail area back to about the same area as the standard 
> main but
> still easily goes inside the mast.
>
> it should increase speed, give a better sail shape, work better when 
> partially
> reefed, cut down lee helm for those boats tending toward that property, 
> look
> sort of interesting and, of course, be an expensive retrofit - how else 
> can I
> afford to retire?
>
> no more info until it goes through some test sailing in the spring.
>
> stan/gbi
>