ritchyp
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Hi Members,
My recently purchased Feeling 1090 has a problem with the mainsail. When it is fully hoisted and the majority of the luff is tight, There is a bulge and a considerable gap between the mast and the luff. As mentioned above, the luff is taught most the of the way up the mast but considerably loose from from the tack and up to the first 2 or 3 feet. Obviously the lower part of the sail is not giving any performance at all. This isn't along the entire length of the foot of the sail as it is ok at the leech It is a fully Battened sail, new in 2021 from Hyde Sails and the previous owner told me it was a higher grade sail than first ordered and paid for because of some delays in it being ready for collection so they gave him a higher or better grade sail for the same price as a gesture of good will for the delay. (I am only repeating what the previous owner told me.)
The sail barely has 500 Nmiles on it so it couldn't or shouldn't be stretched.... There is a new stack pack sail bag with lazy jacks and the eyelet on the tack has a D shackle through it which is shackled to the eye on the same bracket as the reefing hooks or rams horns.
There is a Cunningham eye 6 inches above the bottom eyelet on the tack and as I was looking at it whilst sailing last weekend, I thought abought rigging up a Cunningham pull down to take the slack out of the luff. The chap I was sailing with suggested using my binoculars to look up to the top of the mast and head of the sail to see if there was something in the slug track stopping the sail from being fully hoisted. The main halyard was tight but it looked from below (Its a 14m high mast) that the head of the sail was well over 1 foot (maybe even 400mm) short of the top of the mast.
Difficult to judge being that far up and at sea so trying to look at it with binoculars would have been futile and dangerous trying to look up at that angle with the boat pitching. I had planned to have a look to see if there was something blocking the track once we were back at the marina but after the clean up and wash down and putting all the covers on, I totally forgot about until I got home an hour's drive away.
No sailing this weekend but I will be going down to the boat as you all know very well, there is always something that needs fixing or improving on a used boat and I would very much like to figure this out, this weekend. I thought about a smaller D shackle but that would only shorten the luff by maybe 2cms and it feels like it is 4 to 6 inches.
I will be going up the mast in a couple of weeks, to fit a new Wind Transducer so if its a problem at the mast head, I should have time to fix it. I'm too big and heavy to go up in a bosuns chair so i'll be going up by crane in a basket so on a double high tide in Southampton, I should have nearly 3 hours.
Any thoughts or ideas gratefully received
ritchyp
My recently purchased Feeling 1090 has a problem with the mainsail. When it is fully hoisted and the majority of the luff is tight, There is a bulge and a considerable gap between the mast and the luff. As mentioned above, the luff is taught most the of the way up the mast but considerably loose from from the tack and up to the first 2 or 3 feet. Obviously the lower part of the sail is not giving any performance at all. This isn't along the entire length of the foot of the sail as it is ok at the leech It is a fully Battened sail, new in 2021 from Hyde Sails and the previous owner told me it was a higher grade sail than first ordered and paid for because of some delays in it being ready for collection so they gave him a higher or better grade sail for the same price as a gesture of good will for the delay. (I am only repeating what the previous owner told me.)
The sail barely has 500 Nmiles on it so it couldn't or shouldn't be stretched.... There is a new stack pack sail bag with lazy jacks and the eyelet on the tack has a D shackle through it which is shackled to the eye on the same bracket as the reefing hooks or rams horns.
There is a Cunningham eye 6 inches above the bottom eyelet on the tack and as I was looking at it whilst sailing last weekend, I thought abought rigging up a Cunningham pull down to take the slack out of the luff. The chap I was sailing with suggested using my binoculars to look up to the top of the mast and head of the sail to see if there was something in the slug track stopping the sail from being fully hoisted. The main halyard was tight but it looked from below (Its a 14m high mast) that the head of the sail was well over 1 foot (maybe even 400mm) short of the top of the mast.
Difficult to judge being that far up and at sea so trying to look at it with binoculars would have been futile and dangerous trying to look up at that angle with the boat pitching. I had planned to have a look to see if there was something blocking the track once we were back at the marina but after the clean up and wash down and putting all the covers on, I totally forgot about until I got home an hour's drive away.
No sailing this weekend but I will be going down to the boat as you all know very well, there is always something that needs fixing or improving on a used boat and I would very much like to figure this out, this weekend. I thought about a smaller D shackle but that would only shorten the luff by maybe 2cms and it feels like it is 4 to 6 inches.
I will be going up the mast in a couple of weeks, to fit a new Wind Transducer so if its a problem at the mast head, I should have time to fix it. I'm too big and heavy to go up in a bosuns chair so i'll be going up by crane in a basket so on a double high tide in Southampton, I should have nearly 3 hours.
Any thoughts or ideas gratefully received
ritchyp
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