8/8/2023 0 Comments Furling code 0![]() ![]() You will love it on your boat! And the mizzen will balance it very well.” A quote arrived that evening and was one I could easily live with. But it uses a Dyneema luff line so you can take it down and store it in a bag. “Yes, this sail comes from working the racing rules to create a large lightweight reaching sail on a continuous line furler. This way you can loosen the outhaul downwind and easily put a lot more belly in the sail and flatten it out for upwind sailing.” He continued, “Have you considered a code zero?” I replied that we were not racers. “For starters, let’s get rid of the slides on the foot of your main and mizzen and go loose-footed. Wheres Waldo… six sailmakers at work in the Mack loft With this orientation, Travis made some recommendations I would likely have never considered and certainly would never have received from a website. And the sail tracks on our masts, now with new paint, are even tighter than before, so raising the sails and dousing them can be a chore. For extra color, our mizzen staysail is fun, but you can’t tack without taking it down. Our asymmetrical spinnaker in a sock with an ATN Tacker is fine, but is a lot of hokey pokey to deal with. We have an unused storm jib and trysail that we will keep. He first asked about what Jill and I have planned for our boat and I said that we would really like to be well equipped for light wind sailing in the tropics. Travis is known for talking with all customers ordering sails from their loft. Now that we are based in Melbourne, Florida, and considering our old sails were made by Mack Sails, I reached out to Colin and Travis of Mack Sails, which is just down the road in Stuart. Kevin at Mack lays out cutting of sail cloth But if there is one thing I have learned through this four-year project, it is that well-seasoned advice is invaluable, and that sort of advice does not come from a web server. ![]() Nowadays it seems that folks are too often just shopping for price and send their sail dimensions off to a China-based website for bids. How upgrading our sails and sail handling systems means we get to spend more time actually sailing (published June 2014)Īs we finish the complete restoration of our 1981 Pearson 424 ketch, Regina Oceani, one of the last major considerations was a new suit of sails. ![]()
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