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bdehuff
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Initially Posted - 08/23/2002 :  14:57:19  Show Profile
No, I'm not talking about the guy holding the tiller. I'm talking about those cheap plastic things that Catalina puts on the luff edge of their mainsails. I snapped off 3 of them yesterday in a moderate breeze. My sail is only 3 years old. Has anyone else had this happen? Where did you get new slugs? I've found them in a wide variety of shapes, but none like the ones on my mainsail.

B Dehuff
Tahoe Dream
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mday
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Response Posted - 08/23/2002 :  20:48:13  Show Profile
I've replaced many of these. You can find them at West Marine. I can probably look up a part number if you don't have a store nearby --- let me know. The plastic ones a quite inexpensive. The metal bail ones I mention below will run 3 times the plastic (about $3 ea.).

I found you can use a single slide on one of the grommets and a shackle to connect to it for a quick replacement. I found a metal shackle and a protector like the one on the head of the sail works really well, and I keep a few on board for emergency repairs. Catalina has a nylon strap attached to two grommets, usually one on each side of a batten. To replace the slide, you need to cut the stitching on the strap, replace the slide, and restitch or replace the strap. I find the nylon stap allows the sail to flake much nicer on the boom and maintain a much better shape while sailing, so it's worth the effort to keep the straps. I've made new straps from nylon strap material from West Marine too, but had to double it over.

Since I'm in Arizona, my plastic slides are always getting brittle and breaking, so I've begun experimenting with replacing them with ones with the metal bails. This seems to be working well so far, and since you indicated your boat isn't that old, you're probably in a similar situation. I haven't gone all out and relaced the entire set -- too much sewing for me! At the rate I'm breaking them, I'm almost halfway there, though. If anyone has found a better way to replace the nylon straps, by all means, let us know.



Max Day
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