Select to expand quoteSparky said..
I suppose my wife isn't brand new.
Sparky, your problem is that your wife was designed for SDM due to her vintage and does not seem to be compatible with the RDM you seem to be using.
i think she will always be a little saggy around your mast
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I'm sure it's stiff enough. It's also more important how you use it.
Yep, it is down to how you use it and how often. Taking the advise from above, your gear may look wrinkled and old on the beach but works well when on the water. So I suppose you just need to slip on some rubber, get her wet, jump on, pump her hard a few times to get her going and hopefully she'll perform well and maybe even flatten out some wrinkles.
I rigged my near new 6.6 e-type (2016) for the first time yesterday on a 460 North Red mast. Same crinkles evident when lying on the beach. When under power on the water, wrinkles were gone and the shape / smoothness was magnificent.
Hi - can someone please help - New R7 sail which has these creases in the luff pocket the whole length. Never had creases like these on the luff pocket on my other sails - just a batten tension issue? I haven't touched anything yet as its a new sail.
Thanks for any help.
Select to expand quoteAUS603 said..
Hi - can someone please help - New R7 sail which has these creases in the luff pocket the whole length. Never had creases like these on the luff pocket on my other sails - just a batten tension issue? I haven't touched anything yet as its a new sail.
Thanks for any help.
All my wide luff pocket cammed sails do this to some degree.
If pushed lightly with finger in the middle of that area and the creases go away i would think that normal . The wind will push it in and make the desired curved foil shape ( now it is sitting flat ).
And also the mast bending sideways and the sail twist ( when in use ) should help that.
Its not a batten tension thing , that would only help on the outer curve side and even then you still get small creases.
There has to be some looseness in the luff pocket or the camms cant rotate.
Select to expand quoteAUS603 said..
Hi - can someone please help - New R7 sail which has these creases in the luff pocket the whole length. Never had creases like these on the luff pocket on my other sails - just a batten tension issue? I haven't touched anything yet as its a new sail.
Thanks for any help.
Looks fine, but I don't have any r7s. I understand that some of the newer,model are designed for smaller diameter apex masts so maybe remove some of the spacers, if you think there is excessive pressure.
IMHO some of the advice, to reduce wrinkles doesn't make sense. As the sail is not made of elastic materials it has to have lots of wrinkles somewhere, either on the beach or under load. Where those wrinkles are is part of the design.
Would be nice for sail makers to let us know where they are supposed to be.
Select to expand quoteAUS603 said..
Hi - can someone please help - New R7 sail which has these creases in the luff pocket the whole length. Never had creases like these on the luff pocket on my other sails - just a batten tension issue? I haven't touched anything yet as its a new sail.
Thanks for any help.
Since you haven't use it yet, that would only be a problem if that's what it looked like while using it, fully powered up. That's when you assess it, not before. This applies to ALL sails, designed for any kind of sailing..................
