[quote="baldbaby2000"]I'm not sure what the plastic piece is: maybe the leechline cord cleat? I guess it is probably the cord cleat. I would need to pull the sail out and look at it again. We have been working to increase our comfort level with the genoa with winds in the teens so the thin...

Is that rest and relaxation? That's what I'm supposed to be doing on the boat. Is that something that would be done by a sail place like Doyle?

:macx: We have started having a problem with our 150 genoa in fairly high winds when tacking. As the sail starts to sweep across the upper shroud the plastic piece at the lower back part of the sail catches on the shroud. The sail continues to go across the boat as the wind catches it then we end up...

:macx: I would be curious to hear what you find when you go to adjust your stays. My 2001X also had way too much rake and didn't handle right. I had to shorten the forestay by about 3 inches and lengthen the back stay by about that much to get the rake to one or two degrees. The other problem was th...

Thanks John. I will order some. I do keep some fine wire in the holes to slow things down some I but I don't think it would totally prevent it from turning out. The turnbuckle came loose while either rigging or taking down (don't remember which) once on my older M25 and it scared the daylights out o...

The turnbuckle could be turning as I don't pin it. The holes are so small that I don't know what to pin it with. I didn't think I could find a cotter pin that small.

Jim

Frank, I have read some of the previous posts including yours on the loop and the foot thing. I was surprised that no one did what I do which seems much easier that everything else I have read. Being fairly new to sailing and Mac Land I assumed my method wasn't accepted as "normal" even th...

:macx: The loose shrouds comments hits something I have been curious about. I have noticed that after sailing in heavy winds, by the time I get back to the dock my shrouds seem looser than when I went out. I have messed with the tuning some after the boat just wouldn't steer my first time out. We tr...

If the wire's weren't shorted before you hooked up the solar charger, but were discovered when you disconnected it a short time later, maybe the solar charger has something to do with the problem. That's seems like a logical conclusion but for the life of me I can't figure out why it would have cau...

As it turns out, this burned wire was not fuse protected. It went off the perko switch and the battery. I guess that is another lesson in this fiasco. I wouldn't have a wire in my house that wasn't protected by a fuse or breaker....the same principle should apply to the boat.

Jim

I would say that you are right about the previous owner having a GPS. I knew that he had removed some electronics before trading it in but I did not know what they were. I did get into the pedistal and found nothing that looked like it desired power wires to be connected. I cleaned out the power con...

I guess some of the mystery is solved. That wire goes to the steering pedistal. That is easily replaceable but I still need to figure out what caused the problem to happen when it did. This boat is a lot easier to trace wires in than my older M25 was.

Thanks

Jim

I'm real comfortable with electrical stuff in general but this one doesn't make any sense. The only electrical thing back in that direction is the running light but that stuff is all wired with the small white two-conductor zip cord (lamp cord looking stuff). This is totally different from that and ...

With great hopes of actually being able to get out and sail yesterday afternoon, I hooked up the solar charger to the battery to make sure things were fully charged. When it became obvious that the afternoon thunderstorm chances were going to ruin our plans I went out to disconnect the charger and c...

Well, my mast had one of those mast stops on it which I had never paid attention to before. I fed all the slugs into the mast and fastened the stop at the dock. I have never had such an easy time raising the main. Life is good!

Jim