[C38] Forestay - foil sections

[Marci Brown]

Since the roller furler foil sections are held together with tiny screws
bonded via red loctite, they're nearly impossible to take apart, right?
Well, that's not always the case. A few sections came apart on us while
raising an 'antique' headsail a few years ago. (Half a dozen screws had
popped out, unbeknownst to us.) We shredded the sail trying to get it down. 
 
With our Harken roller furler, the set screws don't tighten against the
rigging, only the furler foil sections. The complete foil assembly is
designed to slide on the forestay in one piece. I'll bet the Seafurl works
the same way.
 
Marci J. Brown
PO Box 520549, Winthrop, MA 02152 USA
Ph: 757-502-7422 | Email:  <mailto:mb at seafor.us> mb at seafor.us
 
From: Steven Ribble [mailto:steve.ribble at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:22 PM
To: Catalina 38 Listserve
Subject: Re: [C38] Seafurl grease
 
Well, Tittravate hit the water yesterday...yay! However, Tuesday my rigger
and I discovered the forestay was bird caged at the top...so I need to
replace the forestay. We thought we could slide the old stay out of the
[original Hood] furler but apparently each of the furler sections has set
screws into the stay, so we need to take it apart.  A new stay wasn't in the
budget, (my refit to add the rigid vang and lead all the mainsail controls
to the cockpit came out well but tripled that budget when it was all said
and done) but it needs to be done.  What I'm worried about is that the
screws are going to be seized and I'll end up needing a new furler...and
that's definitely not in the budget.
 
So my question is, has anyone taken the hood Seafurl apart? And, how did it
go and is there any advice from having done it?  Any help would be extremely
appreciated. 
 
Steve Ribble
207/852-0971
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