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#197599 11/25/09 03:20 PM 11/25/09 03:20 PM |
Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 67 Daytona Beach Jeff_Bowers
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Posts: 67 Daytona Beach | Why not tie a piece of line from the ring to the top of the sail and continue to use as always.
Jeff Bowers Mystere 6.0(sometimes XL)
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#197627 11/25/09 08:31 PM 11/25/09 08:31 PM | Scarecrow
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It is a bad description but it might trigger someones memory and lead to them posting a photo as this would fix your issue.
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#197646 11/26/09 03:46 AM 11/26/09 03:46 AM | Scarecrow
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#197647 11/26/09 04:56 AM 11/26/09 04:56 AM |
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Posts: 1,203 uk | Use the rope strop between head of sail and ring, but you need to have a small section of bolt rope into the mast at the top of the strop. Find and old sail and cut the headboard and section of bolt rope off and use that.
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#197656 11/26/09 10:36 AM 11/26/09 10:36 AM |
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | Is it -that hard- to just flip the boat on it's side to unlock the ring when you are done sailing? I've used my Hobie 14 sail on my Prindle 18 when it's really blowing, I just tie off the halyard (the mast has a clete near the base) and never had a problem with the plastic halyard sheeve at the top, I do downhaul it pretty tightly when it's blowing that much.
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#197709 11/27/09 08:48 AM 11/27/09 08:48 AM |
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Posts: 67 Daytona Beach | To keep the ring next to the mast use a slug and a piece of line or nylon tape sewn into a loop with a metal ring at the end. This will act just like the top of a sail. Attach your haryard to the ring(just as your would with your sail),then run a piece of line between the metal ring and the top of the sail.
Jeff Bowers Mystere 6.0(sometimes XL)
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#197746 11/27/09 11:59 PM 11/27/09 11:59 PM |
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | Maybe you already tried this but how about parking the boat sideways to the wind (room permitting), then uphaul the halyard ring and hold it up while you rotate the mast hook upwind? That might get the ring off the hook if you keep the ring pulled up high as you rotate the mast, then release it.
I have trouble sometimes getting my Prindle mast hook to let go of my halyard ring unless I turn the boat, bows across the wind about 45-90 degrees. Bows dead into the wind it almost never comes free.
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