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Tim Wolfe
Beginning sailor, recently bought used Capri 16.5 which seems to be in very good shape. The forestay is a "spooling" jib which seems to have some problems. The head of the sail slides down the forestay wire, and the sail hangs up in unwinding at about the last three revolutions of the spool. Is this fixable? I tied the head of the sail to the swivel so its doesn't slide down, but it doesn't seem to furl very tightly and the spool still doesn't unwind totally without alot of effort. Is this sail shot? Do the wires of spooled jibs become "denatured" so that they don't furl? Any help would be appreciated.