Calling bright ideas dept !

[Grebo]

This guy wants a cover over the main sail  ???, I could have a few more of the same, if I / We  ;D can come up with a good design.
I am guessing I need to use a halyard to pull it up with, there is a 'spare' turning block for a spinaker pole on the leading edge of the mast.  ::)
All ideas welcomed  :D
BTW he is over 6ft tall  :(

PS.. June I can't seem to knock out the adds from photobucket any more, if I delete the "action & view" the picture will not enlarge when you click it.  :(

[fragged8]

hiya

using the spinny up haul is about the only way you can do it
unless you add a pulley to the to the spreaders.


I take it with the in mast furling  he doesn't want the opening in the
mast covered all the way to the top ? just the portion of the sail uncovered.


Just a thought, if the in mast furling stows the sail why is there some of the sail
left out side the mast anyway ???

could it just be an adjustment thing ?


Rich

[Grebo]

Just a thought, if the in mast furling stows the sail why is there some of the sail
left out side the mast anyway ???

could it just be an adjustment thing ?


Rich

Good point, I will ask.  :-[

[JuneC]

testing...



Works for me, Grebo.  Sure you clicked/edited the right photobucket set of tags?  I used the code generated in the 3rd box down the page - thumbnails for message boards and removed the
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[THEDUDE]

We just sew a sunbrella  or a uv protected dacron cover directly to the sail , on both sides. ( a little more than what stcks out of the mast) It should be done with a zig zag machine. This is the only way I have ever seen it done.

[Grebo]

Well Rich, the answer is the corner of the sail is to thick to go right in. All the reinforcing etc. Probably a bit more than is showing here, but not much.

Dude I don't do sail work. Don't have the machine or the space.  ???



testing...     :-[  got that wrong then, I must have left in a = or ?
thanks June.

[fragged8]

hiya

i'd just make 2 triangles sewn along 1 edge only,  the 2 corners above the sail
put in 2 grommets
and the corner below that put another 2 grommets

and a single grommet where the boom car is.

fix the spinny uphaul to the top corner, fix a bungee to the bottom corners
and a bungee to the boom car corner.

[Allan]

If it was mine I would release the sail so it gathers at the mast and then make a sock to go around the mast as high as the lower spreaders similar to a headsail sock made from sunbrella or similar

Allan

[fragged8]

hiya

sounds like a good idea Allan as long as the sail doesn't try to unfurl inside the mast.

[Allan]

Rich

You should be able to lock the furler by the line or mechanism you use to furl it in the first place

Allan