hambleturtle
New Member
Has anyone any suggestions about what to do with your Laser sail when you've stopped at a pontoon or beached the boat for a bit?
I've done a couple of recent trips where I've not known what to do with my (fairly ancient) sail and have just had to detach it from the boom and leave it flapping. The first time I'd just sailed to the next harbour along the coast and only stopped to get an ice cream, but last week I popped over to a pub on the Isle of Wight for lunch. It seemed pretty unkind leaving the sail flapping but the battens stopped me furling it.
Has anyone come up with semi flexible battens that will bend when you wrap the sail around the mast but will hold the sail in some sort of shape when you're sailing. Or has anyone tried sails cut to not need battens? Or...?
On a related note does anyone sell, or have plans for, a luggage net to hold stuff on the deck in front of the mast? I tied my bag between the mast and the painter but it wasn't pretty or streamlined, and a net might be good to hold a bag and a couple of fenders (I could possibly even take a paddle then ).
I've done a couple of recent trips where I've not known what to do with my (fairly ancient) sail and have just had to detach it from the boom and leave it flapping. The first time I'd just sailed to the next harbour along the coast and only stopped to get an ice cream, but last week I popped over to a pub on the Isle of Wight for lunch. It seemed pretty unkind leaving the sail flapping but the battens stopped me furling it.
Has anyone come up with semi flexible battens that will bend when you wrap the sail around the mast but will hold the sail in some sort of shape when you're sailing. Or has anyone tried sails cut to not need battens? Or...?
On a related note does anyone sell, or have plans for, a luggage net to hold stuff on the deck in front of the mast? I tied my bag between the mast and the painter but it wasn't pretty or streamlined, and a net might be good to hold a bag and a couple of fenders (I could possibly even take a paddle then ).