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Other: Simple Cheap Roller Reefing. *Pic*
By:John Monroe
Date: 4/26/2008, 12:34 pm

I finished my poly roller reefing jib sail and I put more belly in it then I like, but the roller reefing works and is really cheap and easy to make. I bought a plastic ele. conduit pipe 10 feet long 1.056 od $4. Three plastic end caps about $2 and two metal pipe clamps about $3. And rope I already had. I sawed the conduit into two 5 feet pieces and they fit together and come apart as shown in the middle picture,,so I can break them down for storage in the boat. I drilled a 5/16" hole in the three end caps to take a 1/4" rope. The roll up rope is only duck taped on but will be fitted into a drilled hole later. The wind up rope wound up into a perfect roll by itself. It was one of those project where every thing some together without a bunch of problems.

John

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Other: Simple Cheap Roller Reefing. *Pic*
John Monroe -- 4/26/2008, 12:34 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/27/2008, 1:22 am
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John Monroe -- 4/27/2008, 4:09 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/28/2008, 1:21 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/28/2008, 1:22 am
Time to build a "recovery" kayak *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/30/2008, 3:03 pm
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Mike Savage -- 4/27/2008, 9:16 am
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John Monroe -- 4/28/2008, 4:00 am
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Greg H -- 4/27/2008, 11:50 pm