Winterizing a stepped furling mast:
When the sailboat is in the water with its mast up with no main sail furled,
every time the boat rocks with the flow, the inside furler hits the internal
side of the mast and make a very annoying noise. Soon as the main sail is
hoisted and furled there is no more noise.
When the mast is left stepped and the sailboat is on the hard, the main sail
is removed and stored for the winter. Then the inside main furler is left
free and will hit the inside wall of the mast every time the wind cause
vibration. To prevent this to happen some people will insert pieces of
carpet inside the opening of the mast. My question is how to insert the
carpet and how far up the mast. Then is the spring how is the carpet
removed?
TIA
Are you sure you hit the right newsgroup? I see you belong to a
boating group.
Not that you won't get opinions here. When we owned our Gloucester
22' I used to clip the end of the furler to a pulley bracket near the
center of the mast and pull it a little taunt. Got rid of the
clanging on the metal mast.
RonB
My mistake, since then I have posted this on rec.boat.
I have tried to erase it from this new group with negative result.
"RonB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Are you sure you hit the right newsgroup? I see you belong to a
> boating group.
>
> Not that you won't get opinions here. When we owned our Gloucester
> 22' I used to clip the end of the furler to a pulley bracket near the
> center of the mast and pull it a little taunt. Got rid of the
> clanging on the metal mast.
>
>
> RonB