Snag is that the genoa car is miles too far back to get the right sheeting angle. Then I looked at a 235 and thought that the top of the roof would be a nice place to fit a new track and car - right place fore-and-aft and a closer sheeting angle to boot.

So before I dropped the mast for the winter I hung it up and with a suitable system of ropes and pulleys I "simulated" the ideal angle and took pics from all angles. This should be a pic of how it all should be (If my download works) http://i144.photobucket....atstanpit/bladesheet.jpg 

Since then I've added a couple of feet of Barton 20mm track forward of the organisers so it should work. If it does, pics will follow!

Geoff

To get the picture to appear paste

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between the img (here) /img that appear when you click on Insert Image.

Regards

Don

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Triumph!!!!

It did work very well and would indeed have been a godsend in RIOW'05. I usually put it on if the wind is looking like getting much over 20 knots and at that point the main gets 2 reefs as well. With that setup she goes very well indeed and seems to be tramping along like a good'un. Till I look at the Centaurs and things of that ilk who zip by saying "wind? - what wind"! I need to beat them by a country mile on handicap and that isn't going to happen with only 100 ft^2 up.

Needs a heck of a lot of sheet tension too!

Geoff Harwood P21/30 Cygnus