[Rhodes22-list] IMF Problem

[stan]

Slim - your screw that you put back may be protruding into the furling 
tube - since you did not buy a recycled Rhodes boat it is probably time to 
invest in the new boom slider system ($225) that we will take back if it 
does not make it all work better than it did originally.

stan

have to go - Ed just walked in.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slim" <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 8:07 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] IMF Problem


> My friend and boat partner Judi and her sister had the boat out yesterday
> and had trouble rolling in the main.  I went out there today and 
> discovered
> the screw that holds the hardware that connects the boom to the mast had
> worked its way out.  The screw was just hanging there and the girls were
> lucky the boom didn't disconnect.  I screwed it back in where it goes into
> one of the roller bushings.
>
> But now the furler is jammed somehow.  When I tried to pull the sail out, 
> it
> only came out a couple feet and then jammed.  I pulled on the in and out
> lines and could only roll the sail in and out about a foot--it was jammed
> both ways.  Then, after working it back and forth for a while, it finally
> came out like usual but jammed again with the clew about a foot from the 
> end
> of the boom.  Same deal--it was jammed both ways and I could only pull the
> sail in and out about a foot.  It's not binding (such as with a wrinkle in
> the sail)--it's seems to be snagging on something and stops hard in both
> directions.  I fiddled with it for about a half hour and ran out of time 
> and
> had to head for home.  I had to wrap the sail (almost all the way out)
> around the mast and bungie it.  I'll head out tomorrow and drop the mast 
> if
> I have to...whatever.
>
> Anybody have a clue where the snag might be.
>
> Slim
>
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