[Public-List] [Public-list] Bilge (main sail shape)

[Gordon Laco]

Sorry John - please answer.. Did not mean to jump in front.



On 2/25/09 4:25 PM, "Hugh McCormack" <hugh_alberg at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Good day John,
> 
> 
> 
> Do you know if Triton kept the design for your mainsail?  If so, it would
> speed up the building process and maybe reduce the cost of other sails made to
> that design.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> Hugh
> 
>> From: Sunstone at cogeco.ca
>> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
>> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:53:13 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] [Public-list] Bilge (main sail shape)
>> 
>> Hi Gord
>> 
>> When my first main was built in 95 I was woefully unhappy with it, Joe had
>> used the more modern style with deep shelf - it was way over powered with
>> far too much shelf. If you look at an OEM Taylor Main (A Fernandez built by
>> the way - he used to work for Tom Taylor) you will notice it was fairly flat
>> and little shelf.
>> 
>> He took the main back and built a new one and asked me to come down a help
>> him loft it - what an opportunity to lean from a master
>> 
>> I told him the end results I wanted to see and then he redesigned the sail
>> to accommodate
>> (snipped)
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