[Rhodes22-list] Reply to Just Bent about weather helm

[Arthur H. Czerwonky]

Jb,
With the main fully deployed do you still have a number of wraps around the furling tube?
Art

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>From: Just bent <j.bulfer at jbtek.com>
>Sent: Jul 18, 2007 12:09 PM
>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reply to Just Bent about weather helm
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>
>Rummy,
>I have IMF. The black line, the one you pull to furl the main, seems too
>short. It has a loop on the end & it stops before all the sail is out so I'm
>already reefed a little on the main. I ran the jib sheets inside the stays.
>I left the traveler in the center & never touched the main sheet. I had the
>boom in the up position with the bimini up. It was 110° with no clouds. Not
>sure of the wind speed, I would call it windy. 
>Jb
>
>
>R22RumRunner wrote:
>> 
>> JB,
>> I don't know the configuration of your boat, but I have the IMF main sail.  
>> Our first reef is to drop the boom to the lower position.
>>  
>> Rummy
>> 
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