WHAT IS THE GOING RATE TO ADD ROLLER FURLiNG TO THE CAPRI
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Alan j
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The cheapest way is to use a bicycle hub with a wire luff jib and some swivel shackles
Alan j
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It depends. If you go catalina direct the parts are about 300$. more if you need a jib. Do you have a hank on jib?
I had my jib reworked by a sail maker who replaced the crappy small plastic hanks with some nice large brass ones. Then run a thin tag line through them from top of sail through sheave and then back to cockpit. It plays against the halyard, makes it easy to hoist/lower jib while underway. Need the "tiller tender" to make this happen because you need to be leaning over the foredeck to bungee the jib into a tube shape that gets held in place by one of the cleated sheet lines. When I priced out roller furling it was way too expensive compared to taking this approach. In addition to buying the mechanism, I would have had to replace a perfectly good jib!