Sails Archives | Sailing Rua Hatu https://www.svruahatu.com/tag/sails/ Exploring the world on a Vancouver 36 Sun, 03 Sep 2023 02:06:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.svruahatu.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-SVRuaHatu_Stamp-32x32.png Sails Archives | Sailing Rua Hatu https://www.svruahatu.com/tag/sails/ 32 32 Hurry up and wait a bit longer https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/09/hurry-up-and-wait-a-bit-longer/ https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/09/hurry-up-and-wait-a-bit-longer/#respond Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.svruahatu.com/?p=3286 We finally receive our long-awaited new sails and test them successfully. Now we’re ready to set off for Costa Rica, if only the weather will cooperate. After three months of patiently waiting, our new sails finally arrived on Tuesday afternoon, September 6. Packaged in two impressively compact boxes, the four sails weigh a total of …

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]]> https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/09/hurry-up-and-wait-a-bit-longer/feed/ 0 The Quest for New Sails https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/08/the-quest-for-new-sails/ https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/08/the-quest-for-new-sails/#respond Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.svruahatu.com/?p=2606 It is that time in a boat owners’ life when the sailboat is in need of a new wardrobe. Our current inventory of sails came with the boat. Each from different sailmakers and possibly handed down from other boats since some measurements on the old sails don’t quite match the sailplan. Our genoa foresail has …

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