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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 05/07/2004 :  16:53:52  Show Profile  Visit JimB517's Homepage
My "new" main arrived and is bent on. It is a stock 1985 Catalina main, with 2 reefs, the first very deep. It does not have all the great features of my now retired North Main (shelf foot, bolt rope, draft stripes, full roach, telltales) but the fabric is like new. White and with a great crisp feel. It does have outhaul and flattening reef. The battens in the new sail are shorter than those in the North. The North was full batten at the top 2 and about 1/2 to 3/4 in the other two.

The new sail is on slides and I've got the mast gates to install. The slides make it a lot easier to adjust the tension in the luff. It is also cut with much less roach (clears the backstay by 6 inches rather than hanging up on each tack). Without the shelf foot the sail is flatter (less belly).

I don't know if it is any faster because there was very light wind the day I installed it, still, I seemed to point higher and was making 4.5 knots upwind in 5 knots of breeze.

Looking forward to testing the new sail this weekend!

Note to Fleet 7 sailors - I will not be out Saturday for the Coronado Jazz festival (both daughters are playing).

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398
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