Well the weather doesn't seem to want to cooperate. I was hoping to seal the teak this weekend with Cetol Marine but it recommends an ambient temperature of 50 - 95f and we're stuck in the forties. I'm basically at a stalemate until the weather warms up since all my immediate projects require painting of some sort.
On Thursday however I decided to do my part to stimulate the economy and ordered a new main sail. I have been poking around the internet for months now looking looking at different sail lofts and finally decided to go with FX Sails. For $520 shipped I got a loose foot main with partial battens, sail number, insignia and the following specs:
Standard Features:
3-Year Warranty
Premium Stitching
Aluminum Headboard
Cunningham
Draft Stripes
Leech Line with Clamcleat
Webbed on Leech Telltales
Premium Fiberglass Battens
Sail Ties & Sail Bag
Cloth: Challenge 5.53 oz. Premium High Modulus Dacron
From the reviews I read they seem to build a quality sail, we'll just have to wait five weeks to see. The headsails seem to be in decent shape so I'll probably send them to SailCare to be inspected and cleaned.
4 comments:
congrats on the oday22! My name is dan and I use to own an O'Day 22 and blogged on www.oday22.com. I no longer own the boat but I wish I still did. looking forward to reading about your restoration and even more so to hearing about your adventures in the water.
Hi Jay, I too am a recent oday owner. Just gutted the boat over the last week, and am looking for some teak to replace the plywood.
Thanks Dan!
I look forward to getting this done and enjoying some SoCal sailing. I ran across your blog shortly after buying the boat and have found alot of useful information there, nice work! I'd like to pick your brain on how you installed your new mast if that's ok.
Jay
Congrats Joshua!
I would replace the interior plywood with painted exterior pressure treated plywood, much cheaper than teak.
Cheers!
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