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K.C. Walker wrote: I always had to carefully feed the bolt rope with one hand while hauling the sail up with the other. It always seemed like another hand would have been helpful. My modus operandi is to raise and douse sail while underway, usually single-handed. If the slides are fiddly at least it's done in the parking lot before launching.
jdoorly wrote:These mast gates are pretty cool. I especially like the internal one but I don't think it is an option for the DS. I just measured my DM284 mast and the track depth is about 0.050 shy of the 3/16" clearance required (i.e. 1/8" lip plus 3/8" slug plus 3/16" for the gate. Of course you can shave off the slugs if you want, or get the external type.
I installed a quick and dirty gate to augment my stop last spring. It was just a plate hammered into a curve with 2 screws tapped in the mast. I am hoping to upgrade it to something more automatic such as the gates KC is looking at. By I'm choking on the price so I'll probably make my own version. I think a 3/4" x 9" x 1/32" strip of aluminum bent into a slow curve, slid into the track and screwed in on one end should give me the automatic internal gate I want for about $7.
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