Rigging & Sails
Standing & Running Rigging
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Aluminium mast with two straight Air Foil spreaders - boomless rig with external furling.
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Stainless steel chain plates and stem fitting.
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Standing rigging is 8mm 1 x 19 S/S wire with sweged fittings.
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Reefurl furling for both Jib and Main.
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Ball bearing travellers with control lines for both jib and main.
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Split back stay.
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Halyards, main and jib sheets and furling lines lead to the inside helm console with Lewmar rope clutches and self-tailing electric/two-speed manual self-tailing winch.
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A short bowsprit, added in 2014, enables use of additional light air and downwind sails. (See below)
Sail Wardrobe
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Self tacking 12 oz dacron jib and main by Far East Sails. Both new in 2013.
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Spare jib.
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Spare main, (nearing end of useful life and for emergency use only).
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170% MPS in sock. This sail tacks to the bowsprit and sheets to blocks on the transom and either of two Lewmar 30 cockpit winches. A wonderful sail in breezes to about 15 Kn.
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30 Ft diameter Sail Chute (Parachute). This is the ultimate downwind sail which also tacks through a block on the bowsprit to the anchor winch capstan. We, (self and wife), have used this sail in winds of 25 Kn and retrieved it without getting anything wet!
