[Rhodes22-list] Jib Question, also UPS

[Jay Friedland]

Slim,
If you trust the loft to do repairs, they can give you an opinion on  
the life left in the sails. Blown out is blown out, and the luff pad  
can compensate for that. My 155% gennie was 8 years last year and  
even with a luff pad, still seemed to backwind a bit when close hauled.

I took it in to a local loft that just laid it out on the floor and  
confirmed it had excessive draft. He couldn't guarantee a good fix,  
but I figured I had nothing to lose to have him try. He took 2  
sections out of the 2nd and 3rd panels up that went from 1/4" min. to  
almost 7/8" for 1-3/4" flattening at the center of the draft. Now  
it's performance is much better, even picking up a few degrees on  
pointing. The final note was that it came from Doyle that way, kind  
of sloppy cut, but it was a full cut not the routine fractional, a  
one of a kind from GBI's norm.

An additional note on Doyle on UPS sails- At Annapolis, I spoke to  
Paul from the City Island loft on some bagginess near the top of the  
UPS when furled. He said they over did the roach on the early cuts,  
but would fix it when I brought it in.
Jay

On Nov 4, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Slim wrote:

> I'm sending my 175 in for some repairs and I'm wondering about  
> having them
> add a luff pad.  The question I have is whether it's worth it.  My  
> sails are
> 1990 originals and might be on the verge of being blown out.   
> That's only an
> assumption, though, because I don't really know how to tell.  So  
> how do you
> tell?  And if they're blown out, would a luff pad be a good fix or  
> a waste
> of money?
>
> Slim
>
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