Mast Sail Track Extension?

[Daydream believer]

Does mean he has enough space. Stopping them dropping out is a hole and a split pin

But the pin is too far up the mast & the sail does not come down low enough to allow a decent reef & allow the sail to stow next to the boom. Rally the pin needs to be much lower down. Read the thread above.

 

[Phil Drew]

conks01 Hi there. Looks like a Westerly Pageant. We are doing the same this winter. Did you find a solution? Thanks Phil

 

[Ian West]

Hi,

I'm looking for the best advice here as I have an issue and I'm over-complicating things as normal.

So, I'm looking to return all lines to the cockpit including the main halyard. Prior to this I was going forward to hoist and the new mainsail whilst stored in a stack pack, went up fine albeit I had to feed in the last 4 slides by hand as for whatever reason (& probably when the new sails were made they were not sized correctly for the sail track?) there's not enough room for them to sit in the existing mast sail track.

I need to extend the track therefore by approx 265mm. The track is 4mm wide.

I've thought about fixing to alu' angled strips either side to form the 4mm gap/track extension but this won't work due to the lip/height of opening above (the gap is also 22mm wide). See pics below.

I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue and had a workable solution? I was thinking whether I could fit a length of ply (strip) within the 22mm gap and then fix to that with an Allen (or similar) sail track extension but can't see this working either.

As I say I'm sure I'm over-complicating this!

Any guidance greatly appreciated.

Thanks.


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Not sure if this would help, we fitted this to our Sadler 32 after changing from a roller boom, Tides Marine Track

 

[conks01]

conks01 Hi there. Looks like a Westerly Pageant. We are doing the same this winter. Did you find a solution? Thanks Phil

Hi Phil,

A while ago now but yes, I did!

A fellow member at the club managed to measure up and manufacture a 3D printed slot/track extension. Very clever stuff and certainly beyond me! He is an engineer by trade and a tad geeky so loved the challenge. I've still got it in place today and it has worked since manufacture and installation.