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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Staysail for Freedom 21
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 19:47:08 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- I have just ordered from Pineapple Sails of Oakland, CA a staysail
- for FELIX. This is to an official specification, and is designed to
- work as an upwind sail in light to very light airs. Winter here in
- the Bay is iften very light, and Redwood Creek is almost always a
- long tack out -- most people motor. I have also bought the Harken 164/165
- roller furling setup. This is designed for light work, but is not their
- lightest hardware. I paid about $130 for the two pieces, and it looks
- great. Pineapple say that they often put them on spinnaker staysails
- of 50 footers, and they see gorillas use 3:1 10" winches to tighten
- up the halyard -- maybe 10 times Harken's limit of 950lbs! I'm
- hgaving the sail cut out of colored Dacron -- Black, in fact. Pineapple
- tried to talk me out of it; they argue that the cloth is definitely
- not the quality of normal undyed cloth. However, for light air applications
- they agreed that there might be no more than a 10% drop in efficiency
- over the best. I wanted white brcause I don't want FELIX, a cat boat, to
- look like a sloop. The staysail is just an extra gizmo. They'll take about
- 3 weeks and I've paid them about $350, which is a lot, lot less than
- North or whoever. I had met sally at the Oakland Boat Show and liked the
- way she was able to pull up the Freedom 21 sails on her computer there.
- Kame and Sally Richards run the place.
-
- Fido on FELIX
-