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Subject: TS240 Jib


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Kim
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Date Posted: 1/09/04 10:02:24
 Can any-one help?
I have just returned from a 3 week trip to Holland in Optica and as normal the weather went pear shaped for the last week and we where storm bound for 6 days in Dunquerke. My wife and daughter went home by ferry and I had to sail home solo. On the way back I stopped over night at Ramsgate and left next morning. about 2 hours out of port the coast gaurd put a strong wind warning out. I decided to push on across the Thames and if it got too bad then run off to Harwich. The wind picked up to a 5-6 gusting 7 and I found that with 2 reefs in the the main and on a close reach, I found the jib was too much and the storm jib to small. What do other people have? or is no-one silly enough to go out in those sort of conditions single handed. I know that most people would have crew and the extra weight might make the problem go away.
Do people have a reefing jib. if so roughly how big is the sail reefed? I suspect the a lot of people might have roller furling in which makes the whole conversation pointless.
On the subject seen earlier on storage. I have found that the trays tend to keep there contents in even though they are shallow. I have not yet resorted to netting yet. I have made 3 cave lockers each side above the trays that are 15 inches wide 6 inches deep and 8 inches(roughly from memory) high with a surround with a slot cut in just big enough to get a hand in. these have worked superbly well for thing like tapes/cd's galley stuff. the tea/coffee tubs etc. I am going to make another set but bigger for under the shelf.
We bought "sock bags" for washing from the supermarket which we put velcro on the corners then glued the other bit to the glass fiber. since then I lined the forepeak with carpet and found that the velcro sticks really well to the carpet on its own so the bags can be moved any where. these have been amazingly usefull and will no doubt appear all over the boat once the lining has been completed in the saloon.
Kim
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Re: TS240 JibHenry and Mary Brown 1/09/04 11:00:48
Re: TS240 Jibbrian wright 2/09/04 16:22:57
Re: TS240 JibIan 4/09/04 23:45:14

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