Cal 39 new mainsail recommendations? - Now Loose Foot

Or in our case in the Annapolis Frostbite races (Sundays Nov, Dec, Feb, Mar) you can get a load of snow dumped down your neck. On my CAL 25, we have a loose foot main. I have an external outhaul with a 4-1 block arrangement at the mast between the mast and deck. The control line is then led back to the cockpit. I don’t like to have rigging stuff inside the mast or boom. If it screws up, there is little that one can do to fix it. I can send some photos of the outhaul arrangement if anyone is interested. Take Care Charlie Annapolis From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 7:03 PM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Cal 39 new mainsail recommendations? If you have a shelf, what happens when you tack. You get buckets of water thrown at you. Sent on a Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note® 3 From: "mi… [at] yahoo.com [Cal_Boats]" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Date: 10/21/2015 4:40 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Cal 39 new mainsail recommendations? Thanks for the replies about the new main-- very helpful! Though the performance advantages of the loos-footed main seem indisputable, I had been wondering if the loose-footed sail would be more likely to slide off the boom in the process of flaking. That is a consideration for me because most of the time my wife and I sail double-handed and sometime I'm single-handed. Lazy jacks could certainly address that but I have found them to be a bit of a nuisance on some of the boats that I've chartered or crewed on (plus another expense). I'm not worried about collecting rain water but certainly don't relish the idea of rain water streaming back to the end of the boom since that's just arm's length from my face when at the helm! Thanks again for the input and any and all other opinions are more than welcome! --Mark Miller Cal 39 "Old Jack Rose" Boston, MA