Real sailors and boy racers use boltropes . Slugs and slides are for old men and sissy girls. Some of us even keep our boats rigged and in the water with such non-macho devices as lazy jacks, roller furling jibs and halliards led to the cabin top. What fun is it to just pull off the sail cover, haul up the main and unroll the jib? Seriously, 30 years ago when I was racing Snipe class boats and had teenage daughters to crew for me, boltropes were no problem but.............. these days, I am most often singlehanding and at almost 70 years old, I find it difficult to feed the boltrope with one hand and haul the halliard with the other while the boat is rolling in the wakes of jetskis and power cruisers. Damn, it's Hell getting old. Ancient Mariner M17 # 14 Griselda
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:03:01 -0700> From: openboatt@gmail.com> To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: help with slug order> > I'm with Bill on this. I prefer the bolt rope, and having gone> through three Montgomerys, all with bolt ropes, I've grown accustomed> to raising and lowering them. Nothing in particular against slugs> (had them on other boats). Just another pov. t> > _______________________________________________> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
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