It was great to meet you at last, thanks for popping in. On your storm jib, if the rules require it to be bright dayglo orange (as specified by ISAF) then you may be able to get your sailmaker to stick dayglo orange sticky-back Dacron onto the existing sail so that it complies with the rule. It will make the sail a little heavier and maybe not as nice as a purpose built orange storm sail but it will work fine, meet the rules and cheaper than a new sail I’m sure. Hope this helps.
What timing! I just started watching (bingeing, really) George's channel a week or so ago, and here he is making a cameo on yours! Fun to see the Contessa gathering, and always good to get and play with new toys! :)
Great stuff, always good fun having new sails. I have a similar sail, setting on an inner forestay and found I had to sheet it to a spinnaker turning block well aft, this was good as It has a separate home of it's own not conflicting with the genoa block/track and I could leave it rigged. Look forward to your further adventures. 👏
Greetings from Oxford, UK. Yes you’re right George has an excellent channel! I am an avid fan. Shame that the UK version of the c32 is only with a tiller. Love the c32 but hate tillers.
Hello and greetings to you now from Kaikoura! Yes, George’s channel is excellent! I have always thought I likes wheels more but actually I’m now keen on British CO32 with tiller haha.
Your solent setup looks good! Tension looks nice. How do you tighten it up? It looks like you are just using a turnbuckle (not 100% sure). Do you find you need to adjust tension on the backstay at all when you are running the solent stay? How did you back the padeye for the solent stay? Sorry about all the questions but I'm working out how I'll do mine. I'll be doing mine in dyneema as well. I was designing a frictionless ring system to tighten the forestay but I think you've done looks nice and simple. I suspect soft hanks rather than brass mind be nicer on the dyneema...
It was great to meet you at last, thanks for popping in. On your storm jib, if the rules require it to be bright dayglo orange (as specified by ISAF) then you may be able to get your sailmaker to stick dayglo orange sticky-back Dacron onto the existing sail so that it complies with the rule. It will make the sail a little heavier and maybe not as nice as a purpose built orange storm sail but it will work fine, meet the rules and cheaper than a new sail I’m sure. Hope this helps.
Yes, very helpful thank you, I will look into this option. Many thanks George :)
Cheers from Poland!
Thanks from New Zealand!
What timing! I just started watching (bingeing, really) George's channel a week or so ago, and here he is making a cameo on yours! Fun to see the Contessa gathering, and always good to get and play with new toys! :)
The Contessa family is brilliant! Yes, George’s channel is excellent and worth bingeing. :)
Great stuff, always good fun having new sails. I have a similar sail, setting on an inner forestay and found I had to sheet it to a spinnaker turning block well aft, this was good as It has a separate home of it's own not conflicting with the genoa block/track and I could leave it rigged. Look forward to your further adventures. 👏
Ah great, thanks Brian. I might try that same set-up and see how she goes.
Greetings from Oxford, UK. Yes you’re right George has an excellent channel! I am an avid fan. Shame that the UK version of the c32 is only with a tiller. Love the c32 but hate tillers.
Hello and greetings to you now from Kaikoura! Yes, George’s channel is excellent! I have always thought I likes wheels more but actually I’m now keen on British CO32 with tiller haha.
Your solent setup looks good! Tension looks nice. How do you tighten it up? It looks like you are just using a turnbuckle (not 100% sure). Do you find you need to adjust tension on the backstay at all when you are running the solent stay? How did you back the padeye for the solent stay? Sorry about all the questions but I'm working out how I'll do mine. I'll be doing mine in dyneema as well. I was designing a frictionless ring system to tighten the forestay but I think you've done looks nice and simple. I suspect soft hanks rather than brass mind be nicer on the dyneema...