Hey guys! Sorry I've been away for a bit. Please check out the new sail photos at:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g4uv26bxw5o5 ... WHc1a?dl=0Legendary Scott Morgan, in Cocoa Village, Florida was such a nice, patient guy to work with. You can't do better. He is currently building all the C/F sails for former USA Olympic Tornado Silver Medal winner Keith Notary, for his incredible 75 foot catamaran.
The Jib work, cutting the leech, building clew patches and window came to $220 (before tax)
The Main work, Cutting the foot up and rebuilding the clew patches, window, batten pocket, plus a bunch of repairs on the luff rope and redoing all batten caps and restitching the leech came to $551 before tax.
So, to catch up with you guys...
Hi Buxton:
Cool idea on the T2 sail. I think I did OK though... The Main work including all orepairs and materials came to $515 so I still have my matching Blue Hawaii Main and Jib, now having Big Windows to see though, while up on the Wings!
Speed633: All excellent advice that we considered carefully. Scott decided to stay with the loose-foot and tilted up boom, because he was very comfortable rebuilding the clew and tack reinforcement patches and the loose foot. But that's a great idea to just take out a rectangular patch below the batten and move the whole bottom panel up to save all that effort! THANKS!
Steve:
Thanks but I think reefing would raise the foot up the mast and reduced sail area more than what we wanted. The reef grommets are halfway up the second panel, above the first batten. (See the first photo in the link)
Also... The mainsheet from my H18 is going to work with the foot or so it's raised now, but probably would not, going that high. But yeah, that would have been super cheap otherwise!
Hey Tim: Yep, like you... I'm for just having fun. In addition to my raised boom, I won't be raking mast too much either. Don't like excessive weather helm, wears ya out for the important part... flying hulls... Thanks!
Hi Daft: Really good idea, had not even considered trimming from the top. Too late, dang it. Oh well on the downside my stripes would not have lined up. Oh, plus I had lots of other repairs too, so I still feel good about what Scott did.
I was thinking I might go back and add a patch to make a square top later, (See my first link's square-top drawing, in the first post). Like you mentioned, I would just extend the battens up there, borrowing them from my old 18. But, I thinbk we have plenty of wind to fly hulls on the Indian River so probably won't end up doing it...
But damn, somebody else might use your idea. That would have been a piece of cake!
All: It will be a little while before I modify my H-18 SX wing brackets to fit the H-16,
(Whoah, maybe I need to shorten those SX wings to Magnum size for the 16?),
Plus get all new rigging and maybe do some vehicle wrapped hulls with my artwork, then hit the River... but I'll post an update when I do!
Thanks VERY much for ALL your help!
Wavey Too - Cruiser 16
Rambo