Re: Rigging the loose footed sail

Dik Richardson (oldbandito@citlink.net)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:09:18 -0800


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Hamada's boom is slotted like the mast. On my new loose footed main, I
installed a regular sail slug at the clew and this keeps the clew down where
it belongs. Back in my racing days, I was sailing a Banshee and it had just
a round, smooth sectioned boom, so I screwed a short piece of sail track to
the upper side of the end of it and sewed a matching sail slide on at the
clew, this eleviated the problem in both cases.

Dik Richardson
HMS 18 #11 Hamada
Hidden Harbor Marina, Rio Vista, Ca

-----Original Message-----
From: JBlumhorst@aol.com <JBlumhorst@aol.com>
To: wwpotter@tscnet.com <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Rigging the loose footed sail

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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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>This is the last time, I promise. I give up on AOL email. It keeps
garbling
>the link. I apologize for stuffing your mailbox.
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>Here's the link. You'll have to cut and paste it yourself into the address
>line on your browser.
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>http://members.aol.com/jblumhorst/HomePage/Rigging/LooseFootedSail.htm
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>Judy B.
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