Its been a little while since my last post, but I put my V222 in the water a few weeks ago and plan to spend lots of time on it this summer. My thoughts here are about the sails. I have the original 30+ year old Macgregor sails, main, Jib and storm Jib. My sails are very baggy but otherwise in relatively good shape. I read on another post about cutting some stitching to allow the bolt rope to slide in the sail and reduce some of the bagginess in the sails. I would like to hear more detail on this. Also any thing else I can do to improve these old sails. for example I would like to add DIY reef points. At this point I don't see new sails in the future of this boat, and would rather work with what I have.
Pete
Working with old sails
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Re: Working with old sails
first,
you dont have to cut the bolt rope to get the baggy out.
soak the boltrope and the edge of the sail in warm freshwater.......maybe use the tub or kids wading pool, when that rope is good and soaked, remove from the water, grab a couple of C clamps and either fir or starboard say 3/4 inch thick and clamp each end of the boltrope between two pieces of starboard.
then pull and tie off the two clamp to cables or patio deck posts , something you can put tenson on.......pulling on that wet rope will stretch it like a rubber band until it is dry, be careful not to overstretch.....
one time took all the slack out and picked up over 4 inches of rope length.
fairwinds
you dont have to cut the bolt rope to get the baggy out.
soak the boltrope and the edge of the sail in warm freshwater.......maybe use the tub or kids wading pool, when that rope is good and soaked, remove from the water, grab a couple of C clamps and either fir or starboard say 3/4 inch thick and clamp each end of the boltrope between two pieces of starboard.
then pull and tie off the two clamp to cables or patio deck posts , something you can put tenson on.......pulling on that wet rope will stretch it like a rubber band until it is dry, be careful not to overstretch.....
one time took all the slack out and picked up over 4 inches of rope length.
fairwinds