I think weekenders had some type of imbedded rope in the sail that sled through the channel of the mast? The po replaced this with lugs on the sail that work very well except for one thing. He simply placed thin aluminum strips over the key way opening where the sail is taken on/off. The tension of pulling on the halyard causes the lugs to ' hang up' on the mast channel extrusion when hoisting the sail. Which means one hand on the halyard and one jiggling the sail...sooner or later I'm going ob! I know this was a popular modification. Before I start grinding Al bar stock maybe there is an easier way ?
sail lugs
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Your profile has no indication of the type boat you are sailing. The options to fix the slot and sail slugs depends partly on how big your mast is. I doubt. You want ball bearing cars on a 25ft mast but you would on a 60 footer.
More. Info on the size and type mast would help as would knowing the age of the sail as it may not be worth having the bolt rope repaired if blown out.
More. Info on the size and type mast would help as would knowing the age of the sail as it may not be worth having the bolt rope repaired if blown out.
Am I correct that we are refering ot the mast on an O'DAY 192? Maybe an O'DAY 19?
I have heard of both of those boats being refered to with a model name/description of "Weekender", so I am guessing htat is what you have?
When we added a plate to cover the opening in the mast slot/groove on our old CAL 21 we used a bent aluminum plate shaped to fit, it closed off the slot by overlapping it. and usually that prevented the slugs from getting caught.
Others have used a plate with the edge folded over and trimed to fit the slot opening, others have closed hte slot with JB Weld or Marine-Tex (not sure how well either would stay in place over time.
I have heard of both of those boats being refered to with a model name/description of "Weekender", so I am guessing htat is what you have?
When we added a plate to cover the opening in the mast slot/groove on our old CAL 21 we used a bent aluminum plate shaped to fit, it closed off the slot by overlapping it. and usually that prevented the slugs from getting caught.
Others have used a plate with the edge folded over and trimed to fit the slot opening, others have closed hte slot with JB Weld or Marine-Tex (not sure how well either would stay in place over time.
Thanks. Its a 19. The 192 was the later model to mine I picked up jb weld and a 1/8 '' aluminum the other day. Guys swear by jb weld. I never glued al before!