""Schöön Martin"" wrote in message
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"Shaun Van Poecke" writes:
Hi All,
I have a 16' beach cat and the halyards are a source of bother for me.
Like
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another story. It is very hard to get enough tension on that jib
halyard, I
try the usual method of putting a half turn around the horn clean then
pulling out on the halyard (above the cleat) while trying to retension
the
tail. By this method i can bootstrap my way to some reasonable tension,
but
if the wind is blowing hard it's only a matter of time till that horn
cleat
slacks off a little. It really doesnt take much loss in tension to have
the
jib luff up there flapping in the wind.
This sounds more like your lines are relatives to the ones on
my parents old 5 m monohull. Those halyards were 'rubber bands'.
On my 8 m cat I use the method you describe without issues.
Today I use a very good 8mm Dyneema line. Before that I used a
6 mm Dyneema line which worked pretty well to but the stiffer
8 mm line is definitely better. (Diameters include cover)
What type of line do you use?
Here is my boat:
http://hem.bredband.net/b262106/
--
Martin Schöön
"Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by hitting back"
Piet Hein