[C38] Seafurl grease

[Steven Ribble]

Thanks Dan, that's encouraging...an logical. The plan is to take the
stay/furler off and work on it on the dock, so we'll see what happens .
 On May 26, 2011 11:12 PM, <dmills3 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Steve, I think it would be impossible to have set screws into the
forestay. The whole forestay doesn't spin when you furl up the sail, only
the furler. I just put my drum back on and had to lift (slide) the foil of
furler whatever you want to call it, up about an inch to get the drum in the
correct position. It does slide up and down.
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> Maybe you have to take the whole system off and lay it on the ground to
see how it comes apart. Maybe it slides up from the turnbuckle at the bottom
and bottoms out at the top.
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> Dan #108
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Ribble" <steve.ribble at gmail.com>
> To: "Catalina 38 Listserve" <listserve at catalina38.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:21:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [C38] Seafurl grease
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Steve Ribble 207/852-0971
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