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10 YEARS AND 31,000 MILES: TIME FOR NEW SAILS
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Lynn and Larry Pardey are synonymous with circumnavigating on simple boats. Learn more about the Pardeys at www.landlpardey.com
Circumnavigators Lynn and Larry Pardey are steady customers of UK-Halsey in Cork, Ireland. They bought their last set of Dacron sails in 1996; after 10 years those sails carried the Pardey�s 31,00 miles. The following is a message to the loft from Lynn Pardey.
Sails have about 31,000 miles on them; the main going the majority of that except when we hove to or during the ten days of beating past Cape Horn when the trysail took over. Our meanderings with those sails included, five race weeks from Brest to Douranez (First in class) to Falmouth Week, Fowey Week and Beaulie classics regatta. Then Falmouth, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, first in class at Sonne long distance race, only boat to finish ahead of us, Saga, the King�s maxi, then south to complete a circumnavigation of Britain. South and west to Bermuda and Maine. Two years cruising US east coast, then from the Chesapeake Bay to the Azores, Azores to Cape Verdes, Brazil, Argentina, round Cape Horn to Chile, north to Juan Fernandez archipelago, Marquesas, Hawaii, Victoria, Canada. Cruising and regattas in Canadian and American Pacific Northwest waters last two seasons. That�s it, and that''s why sails are now ready for replacement. Estimate about 65 percent of strength left, but shape is starting to move aft. Zipper on jib needed replacing, otherwise just some chafed stitching needed care. Grand suit of sails. Let us know prices for three working sails, main, staysail and jib. By the way we did use the reef in the storm Trysail off Cape Horn and needed it!
Best, Lin
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