[Rhodes22-list] Welcome and Ready to sail!

[Leland]

Mary Lou,

We'll be out this weekend and on the lookout for Fretless.

Hope to see you!

Lee


Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> 
> Wow. So many new Rhodies! Thanks all for speaking up and welcome to the
> list!
> 
> Hope everyone is in a position to take advantage of the great weather 
> we are having. I think Fretless is finally ready to go.
> 
> We spent the afternoon dropping the mast (the system worked like a 
> champ as usual) and installing the halyard restrainer for the 
> Schaefer SnapFurl. Looks like the halyard restrainer fixed our 
> furling problems. We'll know for sure tomorrow when we go for a sail. 
> Sometimes you are just plain lucky. We already had a halyard 
> restrainer for the UPS and were worried about the real estate at the 
> mast head. Our steaming light is way up there in the same vicinity 
> too. Turns out that the two halyards fit easily through the new 
> larger restrainer AND the new restrainer could be installed using the 
> screw holes from the old restrainer! A test run in the dock had the 
> sail furling and unfurling more smoothly than it ever has.
> 
> If you missed the background on this - last year was the first year 
> we had the Schaefer unit. When we installed it, we thought we would 
> first try it without the restrainer but then at the last minute 
> decided to swap halyards with the UPS and ended up with the jib 
> halyard being run through the restrainer for the UPS. When we put the 
> mast up this year we had the halyards where we wanted them with the 
> UPS halyard through the restrainer and going back to our original 
> idea of trying the SnapFurl unit without the restrainer. Bad idea. 
> Immediate crankiness and a halyard wrap. I think the 2 halyards will 
> be fine going through the same restrainer. There is plenty of room 
> and neither gets used all that much.
> 
> Now we are one step closer to our stated goal of sailing more this 
> year than last year. Truth to be told, It won't be too hard.
> 
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
> 
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