[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Re: [rhodes-list] Sails Revisted

[Steve]

FYI - here is an old e-mail that I forwarding.  I J P
E is down below.
Steve


--- Richard F Sheehan <dickshee@juno.com> wrote:
> To: rhodes-list@sailnet.net
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 07:14:29 -0500
> From: Richard F Sheehan <dickshee@juno.com>
> Subject: Re: [rhodes-list] Sails Revisted
> 
> Scott;
> There is another way to go for your 1972 boat.  Call
> Bacon & Associates,
> Inc.  116 Legion Ave, PO Box 3150, Annapolis, MD
> 21403.  Phone
> 410-263-4880.   They have an enormous stock of used
> sails, many raced
> only one season.  They might  the largest sail
> dealer in the USA, but
> even if they are not, they are still well up there.
> 
>  Use these parameters for your mainsail:
> 
> I = 25.50
> J = 9.00
> P = 22.00
> E = 9.00  
> 
> 
> You can get a serviceable used sail there at a
> fraction of the new sail
> price [like 1/2 or 3/5, those type of fractions.] 
> This may be just the
> ticket for your older boat, unless, of course, you
> devote your entire
> waking energies to retrofitting it and making a
> custom vessel.
> 
> You will have to ask them how to measure for the
> jib.  I'm sorry, I lost
> that information when my computer crashed. 
> Naturally, you might not get
> lucky on the jib, so you might have to have the
> local loft sew the proper
> tape on the luff of the jib to match your roller
> furler.  Again, if the
> boat doesn't have a roller furler, you can save the
> expense by having a
> normal hanked on jib, and a jib storage bag.  It
> will still sail fine,
> but then you might want to also invest in a working
> jib. 
> 
> Hope this gives you another line of thinking.
> 
> Dick
> 
> CPT Richard F. Sheehan
> 218 Pier D, Naples FL 34112
> dickshee@juno.com
> PH:941-793-0053
> 
> 
>
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