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Bow sprint is awesome! And I bet Bill Robinson had a very interesting life….. thanks.

All good ideas here. I also used boat leather.Com for the F 35 P. 4 yrs ago. Maybe similar price to defender but kit had foam pad too. No issues so far

Yay - looks like I saved a trip to the boatyard thanks to good advise :D A month ago I went up the mast and looked at the Antal track - all looked good. Today I went up and cleaned the track and cars and generously lubed all. Raised and lowered the main a dozen times and all seems good now. I also d...

Logical - I made appointment with Kkmi Richmond next week. They can haul a rigger up with a crane. Thanks

Advise needed- back in June before the Ditch Run, hoisting my main using the electric winch (Harken 44) the mainsail went up with great effort, going a couple of feet, stopping and with the winch grinding, a pop would be heard from the mast and sail would go up another couple feet- repeat. I took th...

Search this forum too- need two shuttle blocks configured similarly

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Thanks Radio Zephyr

Im sure you’ve seen this but just in case here’s a link to the strut pro cutlets bearing replacement tool (on YouTube as well)
https://strutpro.com/

Sounds like a workable idea - there is an extraction tool available where the new cutlass bearing is pushed in and the old one is pushed out in the same motion - similar principal, only more expensive….. that’s also how I remove thru hulls

Timely- sailing yesterday trying to match the environment we had with the F39 with my F 35- putting a reef (2nd reef as I don’t run a first reef), line got hung up and the power winch ripped the luff reef block apart and tore the line in half- main got stuck up and had a time trying to get it down :...