[Alberg30] seafurl line drive jamming in bottom drum

[neil murdock]

Help with advice needed. We own Sirocco, A30 #359 with a Hood line drive Seafurl system which I believe was a group purchase item before our stewardship. The system has performed flawlessly for us the last four years. Before Isabel came, I removed the genny (among all the other gear above deck) and she rode out what there was of the blow. After all was over and genny re-installed, noticed that it took a-lot of effort to unroll and refurl genny. Pulled genny back down tonight and checked upper bearing - o.k., free turning. However discovered that the lower unit turns very hard. Loosened up lower rope retaining drum and moved it down far enough to remove rope from drum interior, still had hard time turning drum. As it was getting dark and I could not find the owners manual for the furler (funny, I could have sworn I saw it in the locker not two years ago) decided to pack it in and not drop parts into the Hudson (oops, splash) or worse yet drop forestay/mast into Hudson (OOPS,B!
ANG, SPLASH). Does anyone have the exploded view of the furler they could fax to me ? fax here 845 358 5955, will leave on tonight. Help would be greatly appreciated, as the wind is just coming back from its summer vacation and I hope to sail up to Thanksgiving. The next time you-all cross the Tappan Zee bridge, look to the south on the west side and wave to Sirocco, you can't miss her if you are coming from the west, you will be looking right at her for the first 1/4 mile of the bridge. 

Fair winds to all,

Neil Murdock,
Chief Engineer,
A30 -359, Sirocco

neil murdock
faithwaterworks at earthlink.net
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