Well ya, meaning good things to come but its hard to sail with out any sails as the jib is next to go.
The main sail came off without a problem. That’s the last for that sail. We needed to remove the sail for two reasons.
We are pulling the mast.
We have purchased new sails.
We first removed the Dutchman System by unscrewing some plastic round clamps on the bottom of the
sail. Then un-zipped the pockets that held the line (large diameter plastic
type of fishing line) from the sail and tied them off on the topping lift for
now.
Then we removed the
stop from the mast and removed the sail and slugs.
Then we removed the reefing line.
Then disconnected the back haul?
The pulled the sail off the boom as it sat in a grove. Our new sail will be loose footed and be in a stack type pack.
We then laid out the sail on deck and Debbie folded up some to
make it more manageable.
Then we remove each batten. There is a pocket with Velcro
straps holding in the battens. They came out no problem. Not as thick and as
wide as we would have thought but they work fine so I guess they are correct.
Original sail and was re-cut and full battens added.
Served the PO well and us for a short time.
They will go into the new sail. Beside it the sail would be hard to transport
with them in.
We then took the sail to our storage shed for now, next stop will be the trash unless a good home
could be found 😀
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