Hi all! 
 
1.  
My halyard is still slipping. I want to replace both Clamcleat (CL222) and halyard. Looking closer I see that the clamcleat seem to be fixed with steel rivets, not aluminium. I tried drilling with my steel drill and pushing hard, I just got some chips/flakes off the old rivet, so I stopped drilling. I don't dare drilling steel rivets out, if I slip, I ruin the mast, and I don't have tools to fix a new steel rivet. So I wait until I can go to a place doing it professionally. Meanwhile I bought a new 13m 4mm rope and will try at next sail. With luck it doesn't slip. Question: Has anybody replaced the camcleat? 
 
EDIT: I just saw an old posting (24 March 2011) in the Yahoo Group, so "maybe" I dare drilling:   
It is easy drilling out the rivets. Just be careful & choose a drill the same 
size or slightly smaller than the new rivets to make sure that you don't make 
the holes bigger in the mast. The rivets are Monel alloy - available from any 
marine chandlers. Get them at the same time as the cleat so they are the right 
size! RS will send you the right ones if you ask them.  
 
2. 
I got my boat with 2 gennakers, a new one and an old one. The old worn one had lots (30-40) of tiny holes. I patched them all with spinnaker tape.  
When old pre-mylar main sails were worn, the fabric was stretched and the sails lost their shape, I could not go high up in wind. I wonder if it's the same with old spinnakers, if they are made of same fabric. Thus is an old and patched gennaker sailable until it breaks? Or is an old gennaker also deformed and out of shape? 
One of the postings in the Yahoo group says that spinnakers DO stretch with age.  
I wonder if it's easy to see if a gennaker is too stretched or deformed to be usable ... bulges at the edges perhaps?
Edit: I think that a gennaker can last for many years. But I still want to learn how you see if it's deformed or not.

edited by per_akesson on 01/08/2012
edited by per_akesson on 14/09/2012