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bigelowp
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Initially Posted - 07/13/2019 :  14:48:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
As long as I have owned Limerick I have been the only C-25 (or for most years Catalina anything) at my boat club. This year that changed. We have added two C-25's and one Capri-26 (not 25). The C-25's are owned by young -- one is still in college, one just graduated -- sailors. Today when I went out on a perfect sailing day one of the C-25's had both main and head sail flapping in the breeze, shredded much like it had gone through a hurricane. I asked the club Manager "what is the story . . . " Appears that the owner of the boat never secured either the furler or tied down the main properly. Mid week we had thunderstorms and a micro-burst that trashed only one boat: that C-25. Anyway, Limerick now is not alone. And it appears that "youthful indiscretions" may result in one of the C-25's not staying at the club very long. Incidentally the Capri 26 looks really nice. Similar in appearance in some ways to the C-25 but with the interior of the C-250.
Peter Bigelow
C-25 TR/FK #2092 Limerick
Rowayton, Ct
Port Captain: Rowayton/Norwalk/Darien CT

dasreboot
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Response Posted - 07/15/2019 :  05:48:30  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage  Reply with Quote
a similar story happened at my marina. A new macgregor 21 showed up. He just bought it from someone with a racing history. Had a very nice tri radial genoa. There was no UV strip on it as it was a racing sai. I told him that he shouldnt leave it on the furler like that. He said that he would get a cover for it. Fast forward to last years winter, and I was teaching a coastal nav class. The wind was howling outside and we saw that his genoa had become partially unfurled. It wa whipping around furiously at the top. We tried to secure it but could not. The next day I took it off the furler for him. The entire leech was sun rotten, and ripped where it was fluttering. He's got another genoa up now as of last week, and no suncover. lets see how this one does.
Todd Lewis
Eowyn 87 TR/WK C25 #5656
ARWEN 84 TR/SK C25 #4031
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 07/15/2019 :  21:29:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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...Had a very nice tri radial genoa... on the furler...
A "tri-radial genoa"? Is that not an asymmetric spinnaker? I don't think I've ever seen one on a roller furler, and I doubt his sailmaker ever thought of that, either... Except there must be a wire luff for the furler--a sure sign there should be a cover on the leech. Never-the-less, good luck ever getting a tight wrap on the furler to weather a serious storm.

Does he not fly a jib or conventional genoa?
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
Edited by - Stinkpotter on 07/15/2019 21:31:47
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 07/16/2019 :  04:36:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Here's a description of tri-radial construction by UK Sails. "The fully articulated panel layout of a tri-radial genoa rotates the cloth's thread line to match the primary load paths between the three corners of the sail. Radial cut sails are made with long narrow panels (called gores) are designed to align the strong warp yarns of the laminate with the primary load paths of a sail as those loads spread across the sail. The gores radiate from the corners of the sail, because all loads start from a corner and then run in arcs across the sail to the other two corners."
Steve Milby J/24 "Captiva Wind"
previously C&C 35, Cal 25, C25 TR/FK, C22
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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 07/17/2019 :  07:58:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ah hah. I've seen tri-radial construction, but don't remember seeing it on a "white sail" (or gray as the case may be). I guess there's always going to be something to get somebody to spend a little more and impress the club! (Reminds me of the descriptions of racquets in tennis magazine ads.)
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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dasreboot
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Response Posted - 07/18/2019 :  09:04:17  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage  Reply with Quote
was thinking about this for my big boat
Todd Lewis
Eowyn 87 TR/WK C25 #5656
ARWEN 84 TR/SK C25 #4031
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