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mfasis
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Initially Posted - 05/08/2006 :  13:02:24  Show Profile
Ok, I finally got to use my new Ulman main from Catalina Direct (http://www.catalinadirect.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display& Product_ID=828). Its awsome. I never realized how far gone previous main was. All I can say is wow!

I do have have one problem however. This thing is so crisp, its a real bear to put away at the end of the day. Flaking my old main on the boom was a breeze. I usual did it while I was motoring with my tiller pilot steering the boat. Is there some trick to handling a new sail?

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Ericson33
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Response Posted - 05/08/2006 :  13:10:42  Show Profile  Visit Ericson33's Homepage
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Frank Hopper
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Yes there is a trick that they built into your sail, your first few slugs are on a jackline rather than in grommets in the luff. It helps reefing but also allows the lower section of the sail to sort of fall away from the boom. After your sail is all down you can grab that lower section and in one wrap, gather up the main and have it on your boom. Kinda like picking up the laundry if you put down a towel first and then gather up the towel. Play with it. I do not do this, I have several elastic velcro straps that stay on my boom, I work from the back forward and as soon as I have two battens on the boom I wrap it with velcro and move forward until I have two more battens on the boom and wrap. At the dock I put on the sailcover and put sailties around the sailcover.
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