jimi
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His mast looked half the size, did he have to flog a bit?
Is BigNick skint?
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Can we assume that you're talking about the mast above the deck and not a half-mast between the sheets that may have been subjected to a wholesome flog?
Stemar
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He's got a boat - of course he's skint /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
BlueSkyNick
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The answer is, Yes I am skint - but Kemp Sails are over three grand richer !!
Mission Accomlishied though.
Old Kemp behind the mast furling system now well and truly destroyed (in hindsight should have taken it to a scrap metal dealer, instead of putting it in the marina skip.) We did this ourselves with the mast in situ - saved a few hundred but put my son in hospital with a strained neck muscle/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Brand new main sail - Performance Cruise spec, 3 reefing points, full length top batten, reef spectacles, tell tales and go faster stripes. Main halyard back to cockpit. Clew outhaul was to cockpit and reef pennants at mast, along with lazy jacks. Swapped No1 pennant and clew outhaul, and need additional deck fittings to bring second pennant back. SWMBO not impressed by the need for me to hook sail over the horn though - she'll get used to it.
New packaway is great, but need a bit of practice to get the lazy jack tension right. Too slack, sail droops over boom. Too tight, sail shape is affected. Might bring these lines back to cockpit too.
Up front, new 140% genoa - put the whole boat in shade. First put it up in marina in no wind - nicho shouts out that I have got a big one (he'd been on the scotch!).
Shake down yesterday, able to point 40 degs into apparent wind of 10-12 knots - at least 10 degs better than before - over the moon, I was. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Felt like we were zipping along but no speed reading - the impellor must be clogged, and its screwed in too tight for me to undo by hand. Another job to put on the list. WHat the heck, a fantastic sail to Newtown. Down wind against the tide on the way back - surfing!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Had to wait over an hour for the lock as we arrived at the bottom of a very low spring - only half a metre over the sill, apparently - not bothered, a great day out.
Very happy bunny. Thank you Kemp Sails - excellent advice, sails, sales and service and all round - thoroughly recommended.
Mission Accomlishied though.
Old Kemp behind the mast furling system now well and truly destroyed (in hindsight should have taken it to a scrap metal dealer, instead of putting it in the marina skip.) We did this ourselves with the mast in situ - saved a few hundred but put my son in hospital with a strained neck muscle/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Brand new main sail - Performance Cruise spec, 3 reefing points, full length top batten, reef spectacles, tell tales and go faster stripes. Main halyard back to cockpit. Clew outhaul was to cockpit and reef pennants at mast, along with lazy jacks. Swapped No1 pennant and clew outhaul, and need additional deck fittings to bring second pennant back. SWMBO not impressed by the need for me to hook sail over the horn though - she'll get used to it.
New packaway is great, but need a bit of practice to get the lazy jack tension right. Too slack, sail droops over boom. Too tight, sail shape is affected. Might bring these lines back to cockpit too.
Up front, new 140% genoa - put the whole boat in shade. First put it up in marina in no wind - nicho shouts out that I have got a big one (he'd been on the scotch!).
Shake down yesterday, able to point 40 degs into apparent wind of 10-12 knots - at least 10 degs better than before - over the moon, I was. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Felt like we were zipping along but no speed reading - the impellor must be clogged, and its screwed in too tight for me to undo by hand. Another job to put on the list. WHat the heck, a fantastic sail to Newtown. Down wind against the tide on the way back - surfing!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Had to wait over an hour for the lock as we arrived at the bottom of a very low spring - only half a metre over the sill, apparently - not bothered, a great day out.
Very happy bunny. Thank you Kemp Sails - excellent advice, sails, sales and service and all round - thoroughly recommended.
Steve Clayton
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Pictures please!
BlueSkyNick
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Soon come.
First I have to get somebody to take some shots while we are sailing - maybe September 3rd. By then, I will have my own website for posting them.
First I have to get somebody to take some shots while we are sailing - maybe September 3rd. By then, I will have my own website for posting them.
DJE
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Another satisfied Kemps customer then. We had a new genoa from them at the end of last season and are very pleased with it.
tome
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Nick
A trick we use is to mark the main halyard with coloured whippings at the points where each reef spectacle can just be slipped over the horn. We mark them at the cockpit clutch so we can drop the sail by the correct amount and it saves much winching etc. Since our sail number is GBR we use green, blue and red whippings for reefs 1,2 and 3.
Cheers
Tom
A trick we use is to mark the main halyard with coloured whippings at the points where each reef spectacle can just be slipped over the horn. We mark them at the cockpit clutch so we can drop the sail by the correct amount and it saves much winching etc. Since our sail number is GBR we use green, blue and red whippings for reefs 1,2 and 3.
Cheers
Tom
BlueSkyNick
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Thanks Tom, I plan to mark the halyard too, but was thinking about one band of whipping for reef one, two for two, and three for three. I like your idea because its less whipping on the halyard. Means I have to buy two extra spools, and being a bit skint, it might have to wait a while!
on a seperate point, is there any reason not to hook both spectacles onto both horns? Rob Kemp said not to bother, but it would just spread the distribute the tension better, IMO.
on a seperate point, is there any reason not to hook both spectacles onto both horns? Rob Kemp said not to bother, but it would just spread the distribute the tension better, IMO.
tome
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We only ever hook one over, on the 2nd and 3rd you'd have a job to get the other one around the folds of the sail
BlueSkyNick
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Doh ! I didn't fink of that!