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Subject: Re: First season with a 500

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nick

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Date Posted: 30/09/03 23:05:18
In reply to: john Templar 's message, "Re: First season with a 500" on 30/09/03 15:48:43

Good grief, a Trapper with a cunningham?

All these extra bits of string you lads like.

I saw an excellent tip in PBO for making bagging the sail very easy singlehanded, you can always sort it out properly once in port. Take a short line up to the first of the reefed clew points and attach it to the end of the boom. When you drop the sail it makes a natural bag for you.

We had slab reefing points on our new main though we still had it cut for roller reefing too, it just meant keeping the battens parallel to the boom.

The chain plate problem is one of the potential faults of the trapper design, I don't know how C&C dealt with it. Seems the problem normally only occurs if you have any water ingress through the dack/chain plate junction as it weakens the ply bulkhead.

We fitted a new fuel tank but kept the old breather hole. What we did though was introduce a large loop on the pipe that goes up as high as is possible moulding of the cockpit sides. This is on a 501 though where the cockpit sides are much higher. Is there anyway of introducing such a loop on a 500? Perhaps you could bring it up in the cabin behind a panel.

Sounds like a great trip though, glad to hear you are having such fun.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: First season with a 500	Frank Marsden	1/10/03 8:09:51
Re: First season with a 500 -- nick, 2/10/03 0:03:52 Re: First season with a 500 -- Graham Harrison, 2/10/03 0:55:17 Re: First season with a 500 -- nick, 2/10/03 9:24:49