[Rhodes22-list] cutting down sails?

Hank hnw555 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 14:28:27 EDT 2008


Mike,

Contact your local sailloft and see what they think.  Another option is to
contact sailcare (www.sailcare.com) as tehy can modifiy and re-condition at
the same time.

Hank


On 8/20/08, Mike Cheung <mikecheung at att.net> wrote:
>
>
> A colleague of mine who used to own a 34' sailboat has offered me a set of
> very light wind sails he still has. He said the sails worked well on his
> boat in the 2 - 6 knot wind speed range.  My question is whether anyone has
> any experience having sails from a bigger boat cut down to fit their
> Rhodes?
> Was it a cost effective thing to do?  The sails are free in this case.  I'm
> thinking the headsail may be the most useful since I could switch on the
> fly
> if need be; our boat has the CDI furler and it doesn't look too difficult
> to
> change sails.  I'm not sure about switching out the mainsail, but may have
> the light wind mainsail cut down to fit anyway if the cost isn't excessive.
>
> Mike Cheung, s/v Muireann 1993/2004/2008 R22
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