Recent content by Bembo

Thank you for the fantastically useful responses, especially Robbie W for taking the time to contact Greg and to pass on his details. The case against a foil type reefing jib is well made. I'll try to turn some of this technical theory into practical action. Looking out at the creek over...

I'd like to improve the balance of my Memory 19's rig. A reefed main leaves the jib too strong. I only one (full size) jib, with a roller furl (not really a reef). Does anyone with same/ similar boat have any experience of a successful solution (or suggestion)? Perhaps a smaller jib to...

Thanks Rik. So do you keep it in the well/ water all the time it's moored? The hassle of attaching/ detaching mine means I leave mine in all season. It's regularly fired up and comes out for clean now and again, but otherwise is in the water all the time. If I had an easier one to fit, I...

Thanks for the offer of more info Deadeyedick, but Rik (original poster) has sent me a library of info, including old Memory Owners' Newsletters and the Memory manual. Enough to keep me busy with my rigging. What I haven't managed to find (yet) is reference to outboards best suited to the...

Happy New Year Rik, and thank you very much for the offer of the manual on PDF (my email sent by PM). It'll be really useful, as there are some elements of my boat which I'm pretty sure aren't as the makers intended. All the best, Ben

Hello. Like the original poster of this thread, I am newly registered on this forum. I too have a Memory 19, and have happily sailed it for the past two years, from home in East Suffolk. Rather embarrassingly, I've never deployed the topsail. This means I'm little use in answering the...