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Mike, Curious to know how you'll solve the storm/ trysail problem. I had an issue once about 'weather helm in a one mast Freedom' and Geoff replied that reef, reef and reef again was the solution. So when I ordered a new mainsail I had three deep reefs made ( first is now where normal the second is)...

Mike, what a wonderful enterprise: Singelhanded Tranpsac, I don't wear a hat but I'll take my virtual hat off in salutation for you. According to a bent camberspar: I experienced the same problem: a bent camberspar and ripped fitting after a lot of wind during a crossing. I had it bent back in the o...

Try this site:

http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=1200

kind regards, hans

On my old F38 #120 is a padeye on the cabin roof attached to the panting rod underdeck. On a sailplan of boat and sails the vang to control mainsail twist is not the mostly used boomvang attached to a collar around the mast but block and tackle attached to this padeye. ( Giving a much better angle f...

Had the same problem on my old F38 ( 1989). Unable to renew the gaskets I bought new parts from Bomar (Pompanette). Not the complete hatch but only the moving part.
Simple to install and no more leaking opening hatches.

I don't get the picture completely. What do you mean by the amps going up to 60? Is that the amps as on the panel: amps going out of the batteries? Or going in, while charging? When it's goes up en down while you are using, it could be a short circuit which is shorting intermittently. Dangerous whil...

Thx very much, I read this somewhere around 1979 and this started my love for Freedom's. I repeated the story of the Tortola sloop many a time to
friends. Nice to be able to read it again.

Hi Dale, indeed I can't answer for sure. I imagine it has something to do with the cut of the sail like entry and chord depth. Code 0's are meant to point as high as possible. I think you need then a flat entry and little cord depth and therefore a really straight luff, which you cannot have with a ...

Indeed more or less a Code 0. I asked Haarstick to make me a Code 0. He answered that's not a good sail for a Freedom. A Code 0 needs a real tightened luff, which by definition is impossible for a Freedom. He makes for the Freedom's a sail which functions almost like a Code 0 and named it 'jib top r...

I have a snatch block to the toerail aft near the cockpit, from there to the winch on the cabin top as shown in picture. Not ideal, there's some chafing over the cockpit coaming you have to check. I considered having winches on the cockpit coaming. But the coaming isn't made for it and should probab...