[C320-list] raising main

[fred.lecuyer@live.com]

I'll try that this year.

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From: "Jeff Hare" <catalina at thehares.com>
To: "C320-List at Catalina320.com" <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Subject: [C320-list] raising main
Date: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 7:19 pm


Hi Fred,

Most likely the track is just dirty.  The trick I use is to fill a small squirt bottle with a mixture of warm water and dawn dish soap.  I use about 20 percent soap so that it is really slippery.  

When raising the main have someone squirt it in the track where the sail is sliding by.

The soap washes out with rain over the summer.  The other solution is to use SailKote and squirt it in the track the same way.  I've used both methods over the years and only use soap now since there was no noticeable difference in the results between the two and soap is much cheaper.

When I do this, there is NO problem fully raising the main by hand without winches.  When I forget, it is much much harder to snug it up the last several feet and I cop out and use a winch.

Jeff


On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:51 AM, wflowe3 at aim.com wrote:

> I have in-mast furling and when I raised the main this spring it got really hard once the sail was about 2/3 of the way up.  I'm not set up to run the halyard through blocks to a winch so it is just a straight pull by hand to raise the sail. Anybody got ideas?