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A POTENTIAL CARBON FIBER “BOW SPRIT”?
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:00 pm
by They Theirs
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:40 pm
by Alex
Can you provide link to manufacturer?
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:05 pm
by Cam
Cost?
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:22 am
by bastonjock
that looks very usefull,at $1400,00 it does not seem too expensive either,ive seen a carbon fiber bowsprit advertised in the UKs PBO mag
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:50 am
by Richard O'Brien
Hi TT
The articulating design seems to go right of the forestay? Wish I could see it better? I remember it being discussed before but that didn't include a working model. Nice find! This might be something I'd try, and it is aluminum, so the big bucks could be spared.
Richard O'B
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:23 am
by tangentair
It looks like carbon fiber in some of the pictures and alum in others so I guess it really isn't important so long as the strength is there. But what I can not figure out is the red string or sail twine tied around the base of the furler in the first couple of pictures?
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:14 pm
by Cam
i hope there is a aluminium version for the mac. Carbon Fibre seems a little overkill for our type of sailboat.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:15 am
by Highlander
Was retractable folded up vertical until I added the cat walk , seat , bowsprit rail extension
Total cost about $400.00 Can
Really makes the boat very distinctive & adds a bit of class !
my bowsprit extends 4ft beyond the bow and by giving it a 5" raise I was able to move my genny out to the 3ft mark without lengthening the genny forestay , the genny catches more wind thus is a little faster & picks up speed sooner, with just just 2 degrees mast rake eliminates round up !
I used alum spar 2 1/4" OD 1/8" thick wall
Cheers John
