michael:   great news on the boat's arrival! have fun trying to get any boat-work done as all the neighbors stop and say/ask, "what type of boat is that?"; "nice boat!"; etc ... look forward to seeing pictures of PEPPERJACK.     dave scobie m15 #288 - SCRED visit Scred's www-site: http://www.freewebs.com/m15-named-scred   --- On Tue, 10/28/08, Michael Akridge <twosailors@att.net> wrote: Well Monty Sailors, the day has final arrived. My new M-17, Pepperjack, #652 arrived early this morning. What a beautiful sight she is!!!

Hi Michael, Congratulations, I'm sure you'll have a blast with Pepperjack. I have the same furling setup. With the working jib, it takes about 8 wraps on the drum to furl the sail, then I have enough line wrapped around the drum for a few extra turns - let's call it 12 wraps in all when the sail is flying. I use a rail-mounted block on the pulpit to make the turn, then a cleat mounted on the genoa track to tie the line off mid cockpit. With 30' of furling line, I've plenty of extra with this setup. Installing the furler itself wasn't a huge deal. The hardest part (for me) was getting the darn thing straightened out after shipping. Winding the extrusion the opposite way was definitely a two person job, and it had to sit like that for a few days before it lay straight. After that, it was cutting to length, then installing the halyard - no problems there, as long as you get that little halyard ferrule in the track properly. I did the installation with the mast up, using the jib halyard as a temporary forestay. After the extrusion was cut to length, I just slipped it up the forestay then spent a while working on the hardware at the bottom. The trickiest part of that was getting the opening in the drum in the right spot relative to how the furling line was lead so that there would be no chafing of the line during furling or unfurling. That required a few takes with the placement of the bracket on the bottom of the drum, and the various screws, washers and the U-shaped bracket really wanted to get lost in the pavement of the boat yard! Matt M17 Lily, San Diego On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Michael Akridge wrote:

Well Monty Sailors, the day has final arrived. My new M-17, Pepperjack, #652 arrived early this morning. What a beautiful sight she is!!! Today will be spent setting her up and doing a "dry sail." I do have one question for the group. It came with a CEI FF2 Furler. I think I can figure out how to install it ( I am somewhat mechanically challenged) but I am really stumped on how much line I need to purchase for the furler drum. Has anybody else put on a furler and how much line was needed for the furler drum.

Thank you in advance for all your advice and input.

Michael Akridge M-17 Pepperjack #652

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