Sea Spray Parts available

[jo...@knndy.com]

I was one of the owners of DynaCat who produced Sea Sprays in the late 70's in Calif. along with Julian Cane and Dave Mausshardt. I have a number of sails and miscellaneous parts that have been in storage over the years that I would like to sell as one lot. Some of the sails were only used a few times and one set were my racing sails. Included is a specially made sail that allowed me to sail my Sea Spray in the 18 meter class with MHRA . This was a modification that Larry Nord was experimenting with at the time. If anyone is interested in these parts please contact me.
John Mizulo

[Ray Volpe]

I sort of "inherited" a Sea Moth II from a neighbor and have been restoring it. The main sail is in good shape and still has the original Sea Moth emblem, but the jib is on it's way out, maybe not repairable. I understand that the Sea Spray is identical, except for the sail emblem, so I would be interested in purchasing a jib. I was going to have one made but I have a question. There are 3 grommets at the corners, and the jib looks as if you are supposed to thread the forestay through the sleeve, but the only manual I can find shows that the jib is attached to the forestay via 5 grommets and hanks. I have not been able to run the forestay thru my jib because it is too torn, so I have been attaching just at the 3 corners until I can find a new one. It looks to me that the jib would be more effective if it were also pulling against the forestay. I was just going to install the 5 grommets onto this jib and attach with hanks to make it removable when not in use, or find a new one. Does it matter how I go about attaching the jib ? Do you have one the right size for sail ? Mine is 11 feet long and 5' 9" at the base.

[Don]

You can order a new jib sail from North Sails, Vancouver, BC Canada if you like.  They have made many Seaspray sails over the last number of years.  If Dennis is still working there ask for him as he knows about this boat.

  If you want to use the existing jib it sound like it needs a luff wire made which should be about 3- 4 inches longer than the luff of jib.  This wire will need loops with thimbles and nicopress holds on each end to serve as attachment for shackles or rope.  This wire with thimbles on each end is inserted into the luff sleeve of the jib and the thimble is tied to the head grommet with some nylon string.  This upper thimble can be attached to a jib halyard when raising the sail.  The lower end of the jib sail luff wire will protrude from the lower luff grommet or tack grommet.  This thimble is attached to the bridle wires with a shackle.  Sometimes there is a stay adjuster here but this usually isn't necessary.  You can add a nylon string on the tack grommet of the jib sail which is used to tie the grommet to the lower luff wire thimble and is used to adjust the luff tension of the jib sail.  You can screw on some plastic hanks that have an opening to fit around the jib luff wire that is inside the jib luff sleeve.  These hanks can be attached to the forestay as you raise the jib sail. You may only need a couple of these hanks, at least one placed close to the upper luff grommet.   Your existing forestay is only necessary to keep the mast up and if you like to use for hanking on the jib.

Don  

[Don]

How much do you want for everything and would you ship it all to Canada or maybe Sweetgrass, Montana where I could pick it up?  I live in Alberta Canada, about two hours from the border.

Don Snell

[Don]

Hi Ray,

I am very late to respond to your jib questions.  The Seaspray jib has a luff wire running inside a luff pocket on the leading edge of the jib.  This luff wire is tied to the head or top grommet with line through the grommet and the wire thimble on the end of the stay.  The luff wire should be long enough to protrude beyond the tack grommet or lower leading edge grommet about 3 or 4 inches.  A short line attached to the tach grommet can be used to tighten the luff of the sail when it is attached to the bridle wires.  The sail should be raised using the jib halyard tied or shackled to the wire thimble at the top of the sail and the bottom wire thimble should be attached to the bridle.  The forestay will be slack when the halyard is tensioned tightly.  You can use small jib hanks attached to the jib luff to facilitate raising the jib.  You will notice there is space on the jib hank to go around the luff wire inside the jib luff sleeve.   These hanks can be hanked onto the forestay when raising the jib to keep control of the jib in windy conditions.

Hope this all makes sense.

Don

On Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 8:43:30 AM UTC-7, Ray Volpe wrote:

[Patricia Guest]

Do you still have the daggerboards?