i'm thinking Thomas has it right that the sail isn't for a M17. picture attached of where the window should be for Jerry's 17s using a 150% genoas. . :: Dave Scobie :: former M15 owner #288 - http://www.freewebs.com/m15-name-scred :: M17 #375 SWEET PEA - http://www.m17-375.webs.com :: Sage 17 #1 - AIR BORN - http://sagemarine.us/sage_17.html :: Sage 15 sloop #001 - ASOLARE - http://sagemarine.us/sage_15.html :: SageCat #000 - SAGECAT - http://sagemarine.us/sagecat.html On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
John, Sounds like the sail was made for a boat with no cockpit. I used some bass boat chairs with 6 inch cushions built in so I can face forward with my legs up on the seat and still have a back rest. In your case the extra 6 inches of height may let you see the flying bridge on an offshore fishing boat. The kind that like to bag marlin, tuna and small sailboats. Can you afford to cut the foot down about a foot to lower the window?? Call it a permanent reef point. I fly my jibs off a 12 inch bridle made of ss cable. All fit on the remaining forestay and not only foul the bow pulpit less but do allow a peek beneath the foot. This year I added a second snap shackle to the bridle so the bridle not only attaches to the jib tack but also to the forestay since the 12" bridal did tend to let the tack shift aft when I trimmed the jib really close hauled.
In the forehead smacking department: My buddy who used to sail a Pearson 36 up and down the east coast suggested that the next time I bottom paint my boat I get some cayenne pepper and dump some in the paint. His experience with doing that allowed him to go almost four years between bottom jobs. Seems the little critters don't like Mexican food. Well I dumped a bottle of it into the bottom paint and did not test just a little of it on another surface, did not grind the cayenne pepper into cinnamon sized grains, thought the pepper would dissolve in the paint. Hence my first coat felt like non-skid. Good topsides, bad below the waterline. So after wet sanding the bottom paint to remove the rough texture while lying under the boat in a puddle of water (wet or dry sand paper used) I decided to strain the cayenne out of the paint. It is in the process of doing so very slowly due to the pepper clogging anything small enough to remove it from said very thick bottom paint.. I wonder how many drops of paint are in a gallon?
Good luck with your projects. Fairwinds, Tom B. Monty 17, 1977 #258, in South Texas where the sun always shines.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 4:17 PM, John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
Measured my "big" jib yesterday. Bag says it's the "cruising" genoa. Dimensions plugged into sail calculator say it's a ~150% jib.
It has a fairly large window, not unusually high but fairly long, and, quite high up. Too high to be functional, seems to me. Sitting in the cockpit, the view through the window is of the tallest treetops on the shore (if there are tall trees on the shore...). And I'm pretty tall, so for anyone shorter the view would be even higher. Maybe really tall rigs would be spotted before collision...not small boats or mast-less boats though. I can't figure out why a window would be put so high.
Anyone have something like this on their jib? Any ideas why the window so high?
cheers, John S.
