[ham] [Rhodes22-list] more on the UPS sail

[Michael Meltzer]

keep me in the loop, I am not sure my wallet is their this year, but I have the desirer :-)

MJM
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From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mltroy@netreach.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:07 AM
Subject: [ham] [Rhodes22-list] more on the UPS sail


> Thought I'd bring you up to date on the UPS investigations. We have 8 folks 
> in addition to Jay and I who have an interest in being included in a group 
> buy of the sail if a suitable discount is negotiated and if other questions 
> are answered satisfactorily. I did send a more detailed email directly to 
> that group so if you've expressed interest and didn't get that email 
> (subject line: status UPS investigations) let me know.
> 
> Jay spoke with a representative of Doyle Offshore who confimed their 
> reluctance to build the sail,  They evidently have had problems with  the 
> luff rope splitting the sail in big boat applications. They have changed 
> materials twice but evidently have not resolved the problem to their 
> satisfaction. Jay said something about "The R22 size requirement should be 
> fine" but I'm not sure what he meant by that. I took it to mean that there 
> shouldn't be a problem with a smaller UPS sail but we'll see as we follow up.
> 
> Jay and Fred and I will be meeting with Doyle City Island at the AC show on 
> Saturday. We'll have a LOT of questions. Doyle CI  made Tom Deliberto's 
> sail - the one that started all this discussion. We'll let you know how 
> this all works out.
> 
> Mary Lou
> 
> 
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