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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> I have used the CDI roller furler on my P19 for two seasons now and I'm a
big
> fan.
> Sailing on mountain lakes in Utah, the wind velocity can change really
quick.
> With the CDI you can very quickly fine tune the fore sail to suite your
> desires from a wine sipping cruz to spray in your face thrills.
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> Getting to your question of jammed furler, I've had it jam on me a couple
of
> times. It was when the wind was pretty strong. Both times the line going
to
> the drum got lapped over itself and prevented me from furling the sail all
> the way. To relieve the problem, I had to loosen the furling line and tug
> the jib sheet, releasing the sail until I was past the tangle. Then I
could
> refurl the sail. I've found that I can minimize the potential for this to
> happen by paying out the furling line( the little line that wraps in the
> drum) in a controlled manner as I tug on the jib sheet. Sort of like
keeping
> your thumb on the barrel of the reel when you cast with a Penn bait
casting
> reel so as to avoid making a birds nest of your line with the slack.
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> Bruce Magill
> Eden, Utah
> sailing P19 #913 "Tipsy Gypsea"
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