I had some 1/8" rope I used yesterday to pull the sails up on the trailer. I found the track on the mast was full of stuff about 1/2 way up as I was 1st raising the sail. Just high enough that I didn't have anything I could slide in the track to clean it out. Dam, took the mast down for about the 3rd or 4th time. Cleaned the track out well, Raised the mast again ( I am getting pretty good at it now). Then I raised the main sail. I had to cleat the mainsheet as the main halyard I have is not right.
I don't have any line yet for a downhaul either.
Then I raised the jib. The jib seems to sit lower than a bunch of the pictures I have seen and I am not sure I have the jib sheet right but at least I got it all raised and have a feel for how to do it. I am pretty sure it is not the aussie style.
I will have to fix a small tear I found in the main sail and some of the stitching on the head of the sail has come out. And I am missing some battens for the main sail, #3,5,6, but I have the bottom one. I also want to get new batten caps as they seem broken.
Making progress. At this rate I MIGHT get to test it this year
_________________ 84 14T Redline #67 Blue Hawaii faded but still working! 82 Yellow hull16 '81 Boomer nationals 20.9 on GPS 83 White hull 16 No sails "Clean and Purty Now!" 87 White hull no sails no tramp
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