Sabre 27 Owners Association Community

I think to enable us, to help you, it might be a good idea to put up a picture of the offending item, preferably with a tape held against it so we can see the length. All boats tend to be different, so without a starting point, it will be hard for any of us to comment.

Other than Tony Mynett, has anybody else fitted an inner forestay to a Sabre? If so, I have questions, for those who have experience please:- 1) Do you leave this rigged throughout the season, or only if heavy weather is anticipated? 2) If rigged, what difficulty if any, do you experience when tacki...

I will leave the answer to this for Committee members better qualified than me. All I can say with some authority, is, that despite my very best efforts in some fairly adverse conditions, I have never managed to get my Bilge Keeler to put her rail under water.

Hi, I have come up with a system, that does not involve attaching all type of pulleys and lines to the mast and upgrades to the boom cover. It is a marmite solution, but works well for me, as I sail mainly single handed. It involves attaching a double pulley to the topping lift, which can be done at...

Thank you very much. Certainly food for thought and much more than I had hoped for

Has anybody any thoughts as to the 'rip out' loads for the main anchor bollard and the forward cleats. Given the Sabre can weigh 3.5 tonnes plus, I am guessing they will not be insignificant? Is there a formula, perhaps, that might help?

Thoughts please?

I hate to rain on your parade, but I am fairly certain that is a Mark 2 sail and will be too large for a mark 1. Empiric data from Alan Hill shows the leech at 29'.45" = on calculation 8.976m

DM'd you. Please keep to yourself.

To be certain, the mast on a Mark 1 is 31'4" and a Mark 2 33'6". If you have the bigger mast, the Mast to top of boom for Mk1 is 26'2" and Mark 2 28'2". 2 foot x 10'6" is a lot of lost power methinks?

Thought you were selling a Mark 2 main. Sadly they are not the same