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Mule Sail Measurements and Experiences
Anybody have a sailplan with a mule sail for the Newporter?
I have a few drawings without dimensions and am curious if anyone's had one made and might have a good starting point.
Most of the drawings I have are more conceptual than technical, but one of them is from the original brochures and looks like it's probably to scale, which means if worse comes to worse, I can take some known values and use them to calculate the unknown ones.
It seems like there are also several possibilities for mule sail designs so I'd be curious what folks have flown and what their experiences were.
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Permalink Reply by Eddie Offermann on
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A few tidbits related to this question:
Mule Sail tips from Gerald Muffley
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Permalink Reply by Gerald Muffley on
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Eddie if you give me a call, we can get together at my boat and hall out the Mule sail and you can check it out. MISTRI is in Wilmington, not to far from you. MUF 909 561 4245
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Gerald, that would be great! :) I'd love to come visit another Newporter. Maybe this weekend? I'll give you a call later.
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