3/4/2023 0 Comments Rope attached to clew of sail![]() Others are suggesting moving to sail slugs, and are right, it's easy to convert an old bolt rope main to sail slugs. There appears to be a disconnect in this thread, the OP asked about pulling the foot out of the main to make dropping easier? Um no, that'll make dropping harder as nothing will hold the main to the boom for flaking (maybe I missed the question correctly). Then if you can borrow a can McLube like was said. The question is: will the sail take the more concentrated loads at the tack and clew?įree solution to bolt rope, is clean the sail track, start with a scrubby. Give that it's designed to be used with the foot attached, I suspect that it could perform worse used loose footed, but that's a small price to pay in that case. So, my thinking is that using the mainsail loose footed would allow me to simply and quickly unhook it from the boom outhaul and let it fly free like when you depower a headsail. Not something you want to try in a narrow fairway with expensive boats all around. The rudder is pathetically weak, unfortunately. I've tried it under safe circumstances, and no matter how much I try to control the boat with the rudder, the whole boat turns around the sail, instead of the sail actually backing. I should point out that backing the sail doesn't really work. The only part that didn't work well was braking. My brother handled it well at the front though, and we stopped in time. I let out the mainsail as far as it would go, but the spreaders are swept and prevented the mainsail from depowering fully. So as I made the final turn towards the slip, the speed was a bit too high, and probably still close to three knots when we entered it. I made a 270 turn to bleed off speed, but it quickly sped back up to three knots again once I straightened out. We were moving along under mainsail alone at about three knots. It's also late in the season so very few boats were moving around in the area. This time, one of my brothers was with me, and the wind was almost perfect. I've always wanted to attempt it, but I rarely have an extra hand onboard, and doing it on my own is a bit too much to handle given how the dock layout is. I sailed all the way into the slip last time out. Not something you can do single handed in a few seconds. It has to be pulled down with quite some force, standing at the mast. As it is now, there is no quick way to fully depower the mainsail, as it is far too tight in the mast to fall when the halyard is released. For safety reasons, I'd like to use it loose footed. On our sailboat, the mainsail is designed to attach to the boom.
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