paxfish 5 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Gentlemen - Please give me your "back of the napkin" opinions on my prospective purchase. I just spoke with the local sailmaker about our screecher. He is proposing a Dimension Polyant fabric called CZ-30 GP. My screecher halyard is fractional and my sprit is 2 meters. fabric info here: http://www.dimension-polyant.com/en/Spinnaker_2_6_1.php Sail area is 30 square meters. Is that roughly the size you guys are running for your roller furling screechers? Damned thing is pricey though $3100 US with the torsion rope etc.. I asked for a cut that would accommodate 50 to 100 degrees apparent. Does that make sense? Benefitting from your experience, paxfish Image here: http://i.imgur.com/jID4NnI.jpg and here: http://i.imgur.com/WsGtE1D.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RushMan 31 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 UV strip? Why? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Freedom GBE 27 Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Our screecher is quite flat we can sail it at around 30 to 60 apparent. The angles of death. I prefer our mast head kite which is also quite flat. We can still hold it in less than 40 to 90 degrees apparent and it is less problematic to put up and drop than the firliing screecher. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paxfish 5 Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Hi Rush - I deleted the UV strip. I was thinking for convenience (put it up Friday, drop it on Sunday evening....) I AM considering the elastomeric acrylic enamel paint trick as well, and Intend to test it on some similar fabric. example: Doyle also has a version: Do you guys have experience with these products? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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