Sails

[ebb]

NEW CRUISING SAILS
Carol Hasse design. Last sails from now defunct Port Townsend Sails,. Inc.


Changes to the original plan include raising the end of the boom so I could
stand in the cockpit. It meant the boom had to be shortened a bit, which
meant a coup[le trips down to Watsonville to Buzz Ballinger's shop. Since
I had given him the original measurement for length, he was a bit elevated.
The backstay also split from the center to the corners of the transom -- with
the triangle plate at about the new height of the boom end. Move brought
backstay in closer than I thought, hence shortening boom.

Design has no traditional jib or staysl.
Bow has two large sails on furlers and a storm jib on a movable Solent stay
18" lower from the masthead to 12" behind the mainstay at the bow fitting.
The bowsprit is changing as I speak, but still will fly a lite nylon Drifter.
Genoa furler is a working sail like the main, it stays up. Drifter is meant
to be taken down when not being used, not meant to sail furled up on the
bowsprit.

I have Carol's diagrams of the inventory, but I don't think I can publish them.
Maybe later with cleaned up pictures, if anyone is cruising their Ariel, you
might look at the lines to see what an imaginative sail designer did for us.

Hope the Admiral will post them here! In the least, it's tempting to imagine
what the world class naval architect in Carl Alberg might chat with the
world class sailmaker Carol Hasse about. Should litlgull become the subject.



The furling genoa on the original forestay is a 125% 165sqft. Drifter on the
sprit at present is 140% and 205sqft. These sail's sheets go to tracks on
the toerail at the cockpit or to blocks there.
Triangular Storm sail is hanked to the Solent stay. It's 40sqft, and its sheet
also goes directly to the cockpit.

Storm Trysl mounted on its own track next to the main is 45sqyft. It has a
visibility patch and a Yachtfitters QuickLoader Trysl Track Gate.

The Mainsl is 144sqft. Its two lower reef rows with RZ reefs at 100sqft and
58sqft, but four full battens and a Schaefer 1900-10 BER. And Cunningham.
Has 3 Point System Lazy Jacks by Port Townsend Rigging, Wichard Clips
and Schaefer Cleats. There's 27' of slippery TidesMarineStrongTrack.

The cross-cut self furling Drifter of 2.5 nylon has a Torque Rope Pendant
Spectra Luff Rope and a Tylaska Shackle. The Furler is made in-loft with
a Selden CX10 Furling System, using a Thimble Kit 26' of Endless Furling
Line, a Double Fairlead, & a Tandem Block.

$$$$
I'm going to give you round numbers, close but not exact, that I finally
exchanged for my FIVE cruising rags. Drifter: 4370.-- RFG: 3300 - StJib: 2400
-- FB Mainsl: 6000 -- StTrysl: 2300.


Coup de mai'tre. Perhaps not wholly, but a fine touch. You may know when
the Little Gull is in full fettle, he has a fine black head. Carol called, they were
just beginning the drifter. Mentioning litlgull's namesake, 'How about making
the top panel in blackfabric, I'll send you a drawing.' It arrived quickly.
emailed back, wonderful! But why not make it two panels? OK!
Haven't seen it yet.
So, was thinking, how often does the big frontend sail look like Marvel Comics?
How many drifters have you seen with a black top? Most distinguished, right?