Hood Seafurl - Kink in foil

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Hello everyone.

Unfortunately I have a kink in the foil of my Hood Sea Furl system. It looks like it is on a joint. I dont think the forstay is damaged or kinked (partly wishfull thinking)

I would like to repair the broken section, or replace the foil if necesary. Does anyone know where I could buy the parts for this, or any recommendations on a replacement. I dont really want to have to change the whole system if I can help it.

Many thanks

Steve
 
Might be worth filling out your bio so people know where you are.
I say this because a number of riggers have waste bins of old rigging bits including aluiminium foils.
 
I have never had to do anything with the foils befor. What is the best way of doing this, would rigging the emergency forstay on then disconnect the forestay at the bottom and climb the mast with a boss'n chair be ok, or should I go the whole hog and unstep the mast?
 
You may be lucky and not need to go up the mast.
Attach jib/spinnaker halyard to strong point at front of boat and pull tight. (or fit inner forestay.) Slacken backstay.
Disconnect forestay at base.
Remove drum.
With a lot of furling systems you can remove one length of foil at a time from the bottom end. It depends how it's been rigged.
 
Talulah said:
You may be lucky and not need to go up the mast.
Attach jib/spinnaker halyard to strong point at front of boat and pull tight. (or fit inner forestay.) Slacken backstay.
Disconnect forestay at base.
Remove drum.
With a lot of furling systems you can remove one length of foil at a time from the bottom end. It depends how it's been rigged.
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Remove the whole furling gear inc the forestay, lay it on a flat surface.
the seafurl has 4 roll pins to each splicing section. DONT remove any more than nessessary. undo the norseman fitting & take the fore stay out, replace the section applying locktite to the splice jointer & roll pins. heat if ambient temp not high enough, if you dont the joint will move & the pins will work themselves out ( dont ask how i know Thanks Nige :mad:).
the forestay can be re inserted by pushing carefully with a twisting action to feed it through the splicing jointers ( i got this advice fron Hood USA when i phoned them).
Good luck.
I how have a superb Harken system
 
This doesnt sound like a 2 minute job :-(

Do you think its worth replacing it all, it is quite an old system, but I believe its good gear. Is it worth replacing with Harken? They arent cheap :-)
 
stevd said:
This doesnt sound like a 2 minute job :-(

Do you think its worth replacing it all, it is quite an old system, but I believe its good gear. Is it worth replacing with Harken? They arent cheap :-)
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My seafurl was rubbish once the yard had taken every joint apart to replace the forestay Then failed to re-assemble as per Hood instructions.
The Harken is far & away superior & workman like, now 14 yrs trouble free
 
I have been looking around the web, and I have noticed that plastimo do some cheaper alternatives, has anyone every tried these? They are significantly cheaper / realistically priced.
 
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