[Rhodes22-list] mainsail problems

[Peter Nyberg]

I suspect a couple of things.

The fact that furling and unfurling is getting more difficult over time, even as you gain more experience doing it, suggests to me that there’s something mechanically wrong going on inside the mast.   Problems with furling and unfurling can be caused by the boom being too high or too low, but if you satisfy yourself that that’s not the issue, then I think you’re going to have to take the thing apart.  That would require having the mast down and off the boat.  I have no idea what to tell you to look for when you take the IMF apart, other than ’something that doesn’t look right’.  That’s what I would do anyway.

Secondly, you’re not strong enough to rip a sound sail, even with the 2:1 advantage provided by the outhaul line.  So, either there’s some jagged bit somewhere that contributed to the tearing, or the sail was really shot already.

Best of luck, and let us know how things unfold…

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)



> On Jul 27, 2020, at 11:30 PM, gramille <gramille at tds.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Stan,
> It is a 2011 model that you refurbished for Scott Johnson of Knoxville
> ,Tennessee in 2015. I bought it from him last year and the mainsail worked
> okay although it did occasionally stick towards the top of the mast. 
> This has gradually worsened despite my best attempts to furl it carefully.
> It is definitely more awkward on the upper setting. Lastly, there was very
> little wind on my last sail on Saturday when it again jammed and ripped as I
> was pulling it out! I did not have any real problems last year but it has
> gradually become more fussy this season!
> 
> 
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