Good catch. You mean the two 1.5 l bottles with their bottoms fastened together in front of the approaching giant tsunami?   The boat was in Mexico when I met a German engineer who swore by it. The crumpled aluminum foil is the reflector part. I ran it up on the flag halyard and had a friend hit it with his radar. Then did the same with the standard reflector. Liter bottle system was just as good. The engineer did state that the crumpled foil configuration was a variable, so you should test your product before relying on it. The liter bottle was my secondary reflector, never can be too careful when sailing in PNW fog or night sailing in More remote places like Mexico and busy places like the Med. Even Florida can have thick fog in the spring.
Chris Geankoplis
ENOSIS

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 6:33 AM Patrick Cheung <chitakcheung at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Chris, is that a radar reflector?
>
> Patrick
>
>
> > On May 18, 2022, at 11:20 PM, Chris Geankoplis <
> chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good idea to replace the bolt and unlock nut. You do not need to remove
> the
> > IMF tube to do this. Use all new bolts and nut.  I reused the old nylock
> > nut and lost the spreader in a squall, damn near lost the mast. Alice was
> > not so happy. I had to use a boat hook to re tension the port shroud and
> > limp into the marina in Elba, see picture.
> >
> > The shims you can make if you can’t get them from Stan.
> >
> >> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 1:45 PM DAVID BERG via Rhodes22-list <
> >> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good afternoon,
> >>
> >> I need to replace the tapered washers and possibly the bolts for my
> >> spreaders. I only inspected briefly, and in the rain, but it appears
> that
> >> the IMF must be removed to do this work. I'm assuming these are Dwyer
> >> parts.
> >>
> >> I also need a new spring detent pin, or whatever you call the thing that
> >> releases the pop top carriage (or the boom carriage for that matter).
> >>
> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> David Berg
> >> Blue Loon
> >> Minneapolis
> >>
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