Well that's the new sails ordered
But now I'm back to having to make yet MORE decisions!
You see, we desperately need a new mainsail cover 'cos we can hardly cover up the nice new mainsail with a ratty old patched up fading and disintegrating piece of dishcloth (and I'm being quite generous about the existing cover)
But the agony of deciding between a very reasonable £150 for a made to measure cover (compared favourably with an off the shelf job) and the convenience of a stack pack system complete with lazy jacks and zip up cover for £350
It's one of those "I know I'll be wishing I'd bought it if I don't" jobs and I've been seriously contemplating fitting a Barton lazy jack setup anyway* which'd be getting on for £100 of the extra £200
Hmmm
* Lazy jacks would have made my life a whole lot easier when we got clobbered off Lowestoft last summer 'cos we wouldn't have had the mainsail out of control and flogging in the howling wind for ages
Lazyjacks are great, but it doesn't take 10 seconds to whip a bungee round a flogging sail???
ReplyDeleteIt does when your clinging onto the mast for grim death with the boat trying to do handstands in a sudden howling gale :D
DeleteIt hit without any warning at all exactly at the moment I'd just dropped the sail and let go to grab a sail tie from my belt. Once it got away from me, there was no getting it back until things calmed down 15 or 20 minutes later