Sail slide sizes for Hunter 25.5

[Roy G]

Just bought our boat and drove from Arizona to bring her to Kansas City. She's in the water and rigged waiting for her maiden voyage at Smithville Lake.

When rigging the main I noticed that a number of the nylon slides were cracking and/or broken in places. I'd like to get some shipped overnight for the weekend but no one knows what size they are at the stores I've called. I ordered the slugs here at Sailboat owners but they thought I said 23.5 and recommended the 5/16" and then re read my note and said they weren't sure what a 25.5 took.

Do I have to use the flat back all nylon slides or will the bullet shape nylon/stainless ones at this store work? If so what size?

Thanks in advance
Roy

 

[Roy G]

Found out after visiting the boat and finding a few replacements in the PO's cache of spare parts that the 25.5 takes flat 3/4" sail slides. I purchased the new plastic/nylon shackles as well to replace all of the slides but I have SS U shaped shackles with a threaded bar now which while old should hold up better than plastic ones. The SS ones were made in Japan so must be a very old stock.

RoyG