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Rick Heaverly 86 C25 5382
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Initially Posted - 06/08/2003 :  07:20:59  Show Profile
a couple of years ago someone in our marina installed a furling headsail to his standard rig, and tossed his 150 into the dumpster. i added it to my inventory. this past week we spent a week on the cheasapeake and i flew the standard 150 (probably a 135 for my tall rig) the whole time. i added a 2' pendant to the tack and it raised the headsail above the bow pulpit and gave me visability i never had before.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 06/08/2003 :  10:25:31  Show Profile
Way to go Rick.

I'm amazed at the inventory to be found discarded in boat yards. Principal items found are stainless cable with pelican hooks and rigging wires of all kinds. One fellow ditched a 7/17 forespar wisker pole I cleaned it up and passed it on to someone on this forum. Fair traded, it got me two bottles of home made wine. I just couldn't pass the pole up..I bought the same pole from Defenders.

Mungo hunting is what we call the enterprize here about. Probably the inspirational source for George Carlin's "STUFF" routine.

Val on Calista # 3936

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 06/08/2003 :  12:11:04  Show Profile
On my last boat, the genoa was a real deck sweeper and it also limited visibilty somewhat(although you can just momentarily swing the bow over to look ahead). I now have a furler on my C25 and that gets the sail a bit off the deck to make it easier to see under.

I'm starting to see a trend here. You are using a standard rig headsail on your tall rig C25 and in another topic on bimini's, others were using smaller mains(SR, always reefed) to raise the boom to fit a bimini. It seems that some of you need to trade your TR C25 in for an SR. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Just a few weeks ago a fellow down at the boatyard was cleaning out the C30 he had just purchased and amongst the pile of stuff he was offloading was a perfectly good 12ft x 2" HD Forespar telescoping whisker pole with aluminum ends. I asked him what he was going to do with that and he said,

"It's too small for this C30 and since it won't fit in my car, I'm just going to throw it in the dumpster."

Needless to say, I gladly volunteered to save him a trip to the dumpster and took the pole off his hands. I now have a whisker pole that usually sells for $250.00 that I got for nothing.

As the saying goes, "One man's trash is another man's treasure!"

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 06/08/2003 :  12:45:37  Show Profile  Visit Douglas's Homepage
In my marina discards are often not thrown in the dunpster. We set anything that someone else might use next to it by the gangway gate. I have a few treasures I found and I have donated a few to others. Its a nice way to pass something on to someone who has a use for it.

Doug&Ruth
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