![]() I need to take pics, I'll add it as a mod when the pages are up again. This is a great method for a small-boat mainsail, where we can load the bolt rope or clew slug into the boom, attach the main halyard, and start the bolt rope or slides at the head of the sail into the track on the mast, all while keeping the sail mostly rolled and in-control on a windy day. I need to find a way to make a more accurate moulding - maybe an impression in GRP. metal slides are also available for each type of track to be used in the more highly stressed head & clew positions Injection moulded from nylon 66. They don't work quite as well as I'd like, sometimes a slug will get jammed on them. ![]() They stay in place with a piece of bungie round the mast. To avoid the need for a slug stopper I've also shaped a couple of strips of plastic moulding that clip onto each side of the open part of the gate, thus allowing the slugs to run past but stop them coming out. I suspect the Catalina mast being discussed is a lighter-weight extrusion too. The idea was to feed the sail into the mast prior to attaching the gooseneck, I felt this was a bit too extreme. This involved hammering the standard gate closed along its entire length, and opening one up below the boom using something like a tyre lever. I got the idea from a site discussing Catalinas (can't remember where now), where an even more drastic operation was proposed - to move the gate to below the boom. Bastonjock wrote:rick,did you just give the openning in the mast 40 whacks with a mallet?īut yes, if you whack each side where the channel is opened up to form the gate, it will go back to the normal width. ![]()
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