Well is now late July and I have yet to really go sailing. So far we only have the main sail on the boat and the roller furling car is still stuck at the top of the mast. We sent Max up the mast a job he is getting quite comfortable with as he got to go up two other boats masts during our one week summer cruise to help out with various issues. We ran a line up from the anchor roller attached it to the car and then proceed to pull the car down. This took a ton of effort but it finally came down. If you recall from a previous post we had a set screw back out inside the car last year sometime which would not allow the car to come down. I had to go up the mast prior to pulling the boat to release the head sail for the winter. I attempted to pay someone to fix it but they wanted to take the mast down to work on it and that felt a bit unnecessary and something told me I would end up loosing much of the sailing season if we did this. So I went the DIY route. Alas it didn't work out the car is now stuck at the bottom of the mast with the set screw still in the car. I still have no idea what the fix is and may now end up having to replace the entire roller furling unit and possibly the foil the dumb car slides on due to my scraping up the foil while pulling the car down. I will say that at first it seemed like this idea had worked and the car was moving freely for about 5 min of playing with it before it froze up some how at the bottom. I'm guessing the set screw got wedged in some where again. I ended up calling the riggers and asked them to fix this when we take the mast down to put the boat in storage in August. We'll see if anything actually happens?
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