What US SAILING instructor certification do you
have? Basic keelboat?
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"Bart Senior" wrote in
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: Jonathan Ganz wrote
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: Why do you like continuous lines for jib
sheets?
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: So I don't have to tie them together.
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: Part of my sailing instructor certification
entailed solo sailing
: a J-24, for US Sailing, and a Merrit 25 for
ASA. I found it
: easier to tie the ends of the sheets together
with a sheetbend
: behind the mainsheet ratchet block so I wouldn't
lose them
: as I tacked around. It made it easier to
retrieve them as I
: scrambled around the boat. I sometimes sail
other small
: boats and I've gotten in the habit of knotting
the jib sheets
: together there also when sailing solo, or
sailing with people
: in the way.
:
: If you are in irons or coming off a mooring, and
need to
: back a sail to push the bow to a given
tack--like port tack,
: you just haul on the same side sheet--the port
side sheet
: and you are off--all without going forward and
fussing
: around.
:
: So I decided to rig HOOT the without the sheet
bend
: connecting them. I adjusted the length under
the foredeck
: where I tie it off. I'm thinking about adding
another set
: of cleats farther aft. My cockpit is long
enough that even
: with my hiking stick fully extended, I can't
reach everything.
: I'm putting on some shock cord to help stabilize
the tiller
: also.
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: Bart Senior
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