lateral 110 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 Wonder if these do the biz? $36 at fosters. Hopefully made out of "slippery" plastic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 775 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 Yeah lateral, they work -at first, but wear rather quickly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 595 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 Bionic Monkeys or escapees from some experimental lab maybe??? Just trying to think what Monkeys Fish has been perving at to garner a comment like that It's just what I always thought they were refereed to. Kind of like the up fucker, the down fucker and the sly pig. Mind you, our bowman was called Bubbles. No one called Bionic Monkey though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Farrari 4 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 Wonder if these do the biz? $36 at fosters. Hopefully made out of "slippery" plastic. I use one of these on Farrari as a prefeeder for the genoa. It makes life a lot easier to feed the sail up the track without the bowman having to manually feed the track. All they need to do is jump the halyard at the mast. No issues with it wearing out so far. The boat came with one nine years ago and I have replaced it once due to the original knot splice failure. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Vorpal Blade 87 Posted January 20, 2019 Report Share Posted January 20, 2019 It is possible to do it without the prefeeder, and not difficult. What you need to do is have the sail flaked so the luff tape is all at the bow. Lead the halyard forward via whatever blocks you may have and stand on the bow pulling the halyard while feeding the sail up the spout. If you stand or kneel on the bulk of the sail on the deck this will stop it from inflating and blowing out of control. Remember to put the sheets on first but don't thread them up. Don't worry about getting luff tension on it to start with, just get it up and rolled away and do the final luff tensioning when you go sailing next. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John B 89 Posted January 21, 2019 Report Share Posted January 21, 2019 This is why you have kiwislides and buy a reefrite furler in the first place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chippie 5 Posted January 21, 2019 Report Share Posted January 21, 2019 +1. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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