[Alberg30] seafurl line drive jamming in bottom drum

[Alfredo]

One of these days I will learn how to splice.

It's a sweet set up, a shame not to use.

A.

--- Brian and Elaine Timmins <timmins at optonline.net> wrote:
> Do you have a line drive winch to drive the furling line?   I did on
> #497
> when I owned her. If the line between the line drive winch and the
> furler
> was too tight, it was very hard to operate the furler. My winch was
> fixed in
> position so I went through hell doing and redoing the splice in the
> furling
> line to get it just right. The next season, the new owner (still a
> friend)
> had an even tougher time working the winch. My only assumption was
> that the
> line had shrunk in length over the winter with repeated wet/dry
> cycles. He
> just removed the line from the winch and furls it by hand as I used
> to do
> before fitting the winch in the first place.
> Regards,
> Brian     ex#497
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "neil murdock" <faithwaterworks at earthlink.net>
> To: <public-list at alberg30.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:42 PM
> Subject: [Alberg30] seafurl line drive jamming in bottom drum
> 
> 
> >
> > 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
> > Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.
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