[Rhodes22-list] Sail Plan Changes

[John Lock]

At 06:15 AM 11/2/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>What I've thought about is jury rigging some type of self-tending jib and
>furl the 135% jenny to 100% and live with the less than optimum sail shape
>(speed is not a primary concern)

I've seen examples of this where you basically just mount a length of 
sail track across the deck.  Do whatever engineering is needed to 
mount it flat.  Put a jib car on that without the pinstop in it, so 
it's free to move back and forth.  Voila, self-tending jib.  For a 
lot more money you can get a sexy Harken ball-bearing traveler to do 
the same thing.

Cheers!

John Lock
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s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
Lake Sinclair, GA
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