[quote=reverend]Thanks Tom....
No worries about the length of the letter, I feel exactly like you about the information...and I am grateful to you for taking the time to share it with us! The man who works on our sails has a neighbor the use to own a P-Cat for quite a while. I've asked him to pass my phone number along to him when he sees his neighbor again. If his neighbor is knowledgeable I'm hoping to have him come out with us some time...so he can pass on any more knowledge to us....which we will share with you, post-haste!! Of course, that makes it sound as if we're getting together with his neighbor soon....when in fact...he might not want to share anything with us! But...pray God...he'll turn out to be a wealth of knowledge and a fantastic tutor...and we'll all be on the ground floor of a huge P-Cat come-back!!
Thanks for the info about the halyard cable, that's useful!!
I see that Bill has posted that he's sent you a PM...I'll talk with him soon and see if he has given you any additional information, that I would only be duplicating....so....I'll hold off writing more, until later.
Here's one thing, though...I have a question in regards to the 'luff spar' and what probably we both have on our boats now, the jib furler. Our jib zips onto the forestay, as well. Here's my question...well...its more like an observation, but....I'm questioning my observation....It seems to me, that if you were to have a Luff Spar, when you needed to furl your jib, it would wind much tighter around the diameter of the spar then (as we have) around the diameter of the forestay cable. The advantage of that would be seen if you were in need of 'reefing' the jib, to reduce sail in an ever increasing wind...that the wound sail around the spar would hold against the pressure against the sail's, exposed surface....as opposed to what I might imagine, on our version of the furled jib, which is only furled around a cable. (have I explained myself well enough with that scenario??)
I'm glad the pictures were helpful to you...I'll try and take some more up-side-right pictures early next week.
Until later...
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