It is not uncommon to see furled headsails come unraveled, I've seen it happen in quick thunderstorms but a furled mainsail?
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- Thread starter Ronald Roman
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It's a rough room, here!!! ;^)))
An in the mast furling main might be a different case. At a dock in a reasonably positioned marina is probably in pretty good shape -- as long as the rest to the boat is pretty cleaned-up. In this case, Ron's discussion was related to ONLY the main. If his lines let go, he wouldn't be talking about some old Dacron :^))).
Why if opened-up is a different story. I don't have an answer for that.
I gusseted our main in Massachusetts after removing all the canvas, headsail, ourselves to North Dartmouth. The boat was on the dry in South Dartmouth during the last (almost) hurricane a four or five Augusts ago.
An in the mast furling main might be a different case. At a dock in a reasonably positioned marina is probably in pretty good shape -- as long as the rest to the boat is pretty cleaned-up. In this case, Ron's discussion was related to ONLY the main. If his lines let go, he wouldn't be talking about some old Dacron :^))).
Why if opened-up is a different story. I don't have an answer for that.
I gusseted our main in Massachusetts after removing all the canvas, headsail, ourselves to North Dartmouth. The boat was on the dry in South Dartmouth during the last (almost) hurricane a four or five Augusts ago.
Yeah, one would think that by now the OP could describe what specifically happened and how the thing actually failed.
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It appears we will never hear "the rest of the story" which I infer would be something he didn't want to describe. That's unfortunate as the greatest benefit of forums such as this is as a learning tool and I suspect there is a lesson here someplace.
After hoisting and dousing the mainsail of the Bavaria 38 several times over the past few days, I can see the appeal of an in-mast furling system. Especially, getting to skip the part where you have to cover the mainsail on the boom which is the PIA. Maybe a new thread is in order probing as to what prompts sailors to install this system considering its cost, its lack of sailing performance virtues, and its lower reliability against failure and fouling, than the simple sail up, sail down, etc. It's gone so far that on some yachts I've seen, e.g., the IP motor sailor, that you no longer have to "pull"; it's all electric!
If you're on a week-long charter maybe you don't care about that sailor stuff and just want it all to be easy. Which makes me think, the charter-boat market might be the root driving force for installation of these systems, as it is for the tanks on pontoons with a stick.
If you're on a week-long charter maybe you don't care about that sailor stuff and just want it all to be easy. Which makes me think, the charter-boat market might be the root driving force for installation of these systems, as it is for the tanks on pontoons with a stick.
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The Lesson here gets bandied about at least once a month - people who don't know what they are insured for get bent out of shape when the insurer refuses to pay their claim...and that vessel ownership requires an increased personal responsibility for your property and liability than many owner's acknowledge.