[Rhodes22-list] Re: [rhodes-list] More Newbie Questions

[Mark Kaynor]

Mary Lou,

We had the SparFly on our West Wight Potter. Toward the end of the season we
went out to the boat after a fairly boistrous thunderstorm and found the
tail of the SparFly folded down as if the wind had caught it at a bad angle
and bent it. It started catching on the stays and we decided to just leave
it like that until we pulled the boat a few weeks later.

We also had one on our Buccaneer 19 dinghy, but since we only day sailed off
the trailer, the SparFly was never left out in the elements.

We found it to be a great "windicator", but I prefer the more robust
materials used in the Windex for the Rhodes since we leave the mast up for
most of the season.

Mark



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mltroy@netreach.net>
To: <rhodes-list@sailnet.net>
Cc: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:38 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Re: [rhodes-list] More Newbie Questions


> Jim,
> I think we're in the minority but Fred and I really like the SparFly wind
> indicators
> http://www.sailnet.com/store/item.cfm?pid=20114
>
> We used to have a Windex indicator but found that it was hard to get the
> little wings centered. After a while we decided who needs them? Then we
> lost three vanes in short succession to birds trying to perch on them and
> breaking them. The Windex vanes are more expensve to replace than the
> Spar-Fly and birds don't seem to find the Spar Fly as ready a perch. We
> don't have a masthead radio antenna to worry about. We also have
tell-tales
> on the shrouds and tend to use them as much as we use the masthead
indicator.
>
> Mary Lou
>
>
> At 09:16 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Thanks to the list for all your previous help.
> >
> >FWIW, regarding motors, I went with a Tohatsu 8 long shaft electric
start.
> >An exhaustive (and exhausting) weighing of multiple factors and costs
> >resulted in the surprising determination that the most important factor
to
> >my WW was electric start, followed by weight and cost.  Tohatsu beat
Nissan
> >by a nose, based on a good boat show price.
> >
> >I also ordered my graphics from Rik, and would like to publicly thank him
> >for his patience through numerous font, color and size changes.
> >
> >I'm still thinking about the depthsounder.
> >
> >Now, another question:  What, if anything, do folks use for a masthead
wind
> >vane?
> >Anybody have a close-up photo of the masthead?
> >
> >I also await news of the IMF MK-II with baited breath.
> >
> >Jim Connolly
> >
> >
> >
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