The Potters usually come with a CDI model FF1 (since early 99) or Mini-ST
(pre-99). Neither one of those two models has a spring inside. Both models
DO have a 10" open body turnbuckle inside, but no spring.
You can look inside the drum at the bottom if you remove the long 1/4" clevis
pin that goes thru the neck of the drum and the bottom of the extrusion.
Remove the circular clip from the clevis pin and slide the clevis pin out.
Then you can slip the drum up along the extrusion, exposing the inside. You
should do this periodically to check on the turnbuckle -- be sure it has two
cotter pins keeping it set at the correct length.
The power to wrap the sail around the extrusion is provided solely by the
line wrapped around the drum at the bottom. You start with the sail rolled
up on the furler with 3 to 6 extra wraps of the jig sheets around the sail,
with the UV protection showing on the outside.. As you pull on the jib
sheets to unwrap the sail, the furling line gets turned around the black
plastic drum.
To furl the sail, you pull on the furling line that is already wrapped around
the drum. As it unwraps from the drum, the sail rolls up. You need the extra
wraps I mentioned in the previous paragraph in case the sail wraps up tighter
than before.
You can call CDI at 978-922-2322 (east coast time zone) and request a manual
for your CDI.
Best,
Judy B
Judith Blumhorst, DC
P19 Fleet Cap'n, Potters Yachters
1985 WWP19 #266 Redwing, Force 5 #7951 and #7934
And a pile of windsurfing gear.
Sailing on SF Bay, CA
(5-35 knot winds, 2-4' chop, 2-6' swells, and currents up to 6 knots)
Visit Judy B's West Wight Potter Pages
(http://members.aol.com/jblumhorst/HomePage/index.htm)
and The Official Web Site of the Potters Yachters
(http://www.potter-yachters.org/)
In a message dated 9/27/99 2:14:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dbeisel@ibm.net
writes:
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> I have a CDI Furler on my 19' Potter and I'm not exactly sure how it is
> supposed to be
> wound up. It appears to have a spring inside, but if the genoa is
> unrolled with no
> tension on the spring, it seems to be winding the spring in the wrong
> direction because
> the drum tends to separate.
>
> I initially assumed that the genoa was wrapped the wrong way, but there
> is only
> one way it can go on due to the UV protection covering.
>
> Is the CDI spring supposed to be pre-tensioned by turning it before
> attaching it?
> I would assume the spring is in there to assist in furling the genoa.
> Right?
>
> Or should the spring have no tension when the genoa is furled?
>
> Does the sail have to be wrapped on the furler in a particular
> direction?
>
> The CDI home page installation directions (I don't have the original
> manual) doesn't
> talk at all about how the sail should be wrapped.
>
>