Yesterday my friend and I took Cherri's Jubilee out for the first time. We had trailered it to a marina to do bottom paint, change the pennant, and put in the pivot pin. I also added a red boot stripe, so now she looks really flashy. We motored out of the marina, turned into the wind, tried to raise the main, and all hell broke loose, so to speak. The main sail slides kept slipping out of the mast, which also caused the boom to come out of the mast, plus we had mistakenly released the topping lift. I'm sure you all can imagine what those few minutes were like, until we decided to start over again. My point is how do you raise the sail without the slides falling out? My other boat had some sort of "clasp" type thing that held them in unless released, but this has nothing. I couldn't even raise the sail all the way up because the bottom one would slip out. With all that, she sailed beautifully, even with just the main up (I didn't want any more surprises by that time and decided to wait till next time for the jib). I also am missing a genoa block and don't know how and where to replace that - West Marine? While in the marina, the boat got alot of attention and questions, even from some of the 30 - 40 ' sailboat owners. Some were interested in getting one for sailing in the bay.
Cherri Pavuk Cherri's Jubilee, M-15 #322 Toms River, NJ _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
