o-oh!

I had a couple of Nitro 3's and the same problem. As one of my sails aged, the luff material stretched a little and cams popping off became &^%&*$% - slightly narrower diameter mast might of also been part of the problem!

I solved my problem by VERY gently downhauling a little, then re-positioning cam and then downhauling a little more and so on. The other thing I used to do was have someone hold cam in place while I pulled on the downhaul. Not always an option.

The best solution I saw was someone using a small section of PVC pipe on each problem cam. Get yourself some PVC pipe about 1.5-2 x mast diameter. Cut pipe into 10 cm long sections. Then cut pipe along the length on one side so it can be opened and use as a clamp. Before downhauling, place the clamp (pipe) over each cam to hold it on the mast

Pugs

there are Cam spacers available for the sail that go between the cam and the end of the battern pocket design to take out the problems of different mast diam or luff pocket stretch.

If you contact me [email protected] I'll send you a couple in the post

regards

David
www.gybesports.com.au

Hey Nebbian,

Yeah I tried that, but didn't work, the fact that the luff pocket doesn't have any opening to access the cam results in next to no grip or leverage to be able to do this.

David, I'll send you an email about the cam spacer, although I can't really visualise how this works, and how do I access the cam if there's no opening as per above?

Cheers,

Jean-Marc

Excellent idea!! I'll go to Bunnings and buy one, maybe two as the problems tends to happen to the top two cams.

Now, you really have a TEN sq m?? This is gigantic!!!

Thanks again for the tip.

Cheers,

JMA

It worked like a charm! Thanks Mineral, that will save me a lot of frustration on the beach .

Here's the 2" clamp I've bought from Bunnings for 8$ each:

www.irwin.com/tools/

Now I like my sail again

Cheers,

JMA

that sounds like an awsome idea.

I had problems with my old 5.0 gaastra which was realy old. We bought another sail with cams and it worked fine, so we just assumed that the old 5.0 was an early cam sail and not as perfected yet.

We just use to persist and because my bro, dad and i, all sail together we could have two people holding 2 of the 3 or 4 cams. Still had a bit of trouble though.

anyway thats a great thing to know cheers