Norah Battys stocking...

[FullCircle]

Thats it. I am a fully paid up wimp now.
I have purchased a Cruising Chute snuffer, which always looks like Norah Battys stockings up the top of the stick assembly.
Lynn was unhappy with an unruly 900sq ft bedsheet flapping out over the side of the boat, and particularly objects to having it down below to repack when its got wet when getting it down (again), as it appears to leave interesting watermarks on the Velour. I think it adds character.
So thats it, if you see a boat with a black chute that looks like the front cover of Dark Side of the Moon, with a wrinkly stocking over it, that'll be us then.
Last of my masculine racing pride ebbs away.

Now then, has anyone used electric winches or those winch buddies?
And I think I will screw on another couple of cupholders this weekend, if I ever escape my Spanish prison, and Ryanair doesn't fail me.

 

[Goodge]

Nothing wrong with cruising chutes, especially when sailing short - handed.

Quite like the colours too !

 

[Twister_Ken]

Must have been a heck of a tide running, the way that water is sloping downhill.

 

[FullCircle]

<<<Must have been a heck of a tide running, the way that water is sloping downhill. >>>>>
Its a mans world here on the East Coast - Thats actually only neaps. No wonder we can get 22 knots from a Snapdragon 747 under Jib alone! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[bruce]

there is a furler on the market for asy spinnakers...

 

[FullCircle]

Thanks Bruce, but I think a flash canvas expanding bucket with rope on it at 175 quid is a lot cheaper than a furler at 1200 quid + fitting. Not to mention ongoing maintenance of course.
Besides, a furling chute is more poofy than a cruising chute with Norahs stockings(just), but I grant it does have a lot of pose value.
I will spend the difference in cost on one of those splendid Kiwiprop affairs.....

 

[bruce]

what ever happened to the guy that as always after Norah?

 

[Twister_Ken]

"what ever happened to the guy that as always after Norah"

We gybed, and turned him into a sheet.

 

[jhr]

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what ever happened to the guy that was always after Norah?

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Bill Owen; He died about 5 years ago. Bit of a radical, as I recall, and the part he played in Last of the Summer Wine was not particularly typical of the other things he had done throughout a long career. Bet his bank manager liked it, though.............

 

[bruce]

thanks...