Laser 2 main sail luff bolt rope diameter

The bolt rope on my newish sail is .307  although measuring something soft with a vernier is iffy. Probably means an 8mm bolt rope.

.....just measured the extrusion on the mast, the bolt rope channel is 10mm (.39 inch) dia and the luff slot is 4.3 (.173 inch). I would have thought your slightly bigger rope would fit, but obviously not........I haven't got the bottom mast here so I don't know how wide the apperture is at the bottom of the slot where you feed the sail in. (that could be where the problem lies)

 ....sorry I can't be of more help. I would ring the sail makers and speak to them.

If you want to get more out of the old sail. check the luff length. The bolt ropes shrink over the years (3 inches on my old sail). Unpick the stitching that captures the bolt rop at the foot, let the bolt rope slide up the required amount and re-stitch the bolt rope.......this removes some (not all) of the bagginess and gives you back some cunningham control.

Here's a link to the Laser 2 e-mail group, if you register you will be able to chat to the top L2 sailors UK (Mike Croker included). There's also tons of usefull info on everything L2:-

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uklaser2/

Originally posted by Merlinboy Sounds like another recent thread on laser sails, Could it be that the north american Laser 2's have different mast/sails.  Sounds like the Insails sail fits the Uk masts

Good point and that may be the case although I believe the extrusion for all masts was made by Alcan and should ( he said naively ) be within certain tolerances regardless of the factory.

The mast dimensions I gave above were from an old L2 topmast section of similar vintage, if blueberry checks his topmast and there is a difference, that's the answer. 

.........as BNF said Mike Croker will know.