Re: Keel and boom questions-P-15
Carol Gula (cgula@innet.com)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:17:30 -0500
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Hi Jeff:
I always though that Mission Bay would be great Pottering - I used to live
in south Mission and would canoe out to the little islands to get away from
the crowds lining the bay shore. As an alternate solution for problem #2,
almost any sailmaker can shorten the foot of the sail to fit the boom - they
just take a hot knife and make a vertical cut close to the bolt rope and
then replace with a new bolt rope. I'd bet that the sail thus modified
would set so much better that performance would improve despite the slightly
reduced area.
>2) The bottom edge of my mainsail extends slightly beyond the end of my
>boom. >The sail seems to be the original 1982 equipment from Odessey and
is
>otherwise in good shape. >
Hope this helps,
Mac Davis, Kelpie, WWP19#804, Aripeka, FL