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The answer on jib sheets
This has got to be the way to do it for roller jibs or other headsails
you don't need to detach for quick sheet changes. With the trick I've been trying to dredge out of my memory, it is very clean. http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Strider0603.htm#sheet The clump of rope (which will be smaller with the actual sheets) could still give you a good rap on the noggin but it actually pads the hardware in the corner of the sail. Knots right at the clew should also be less painful than bowline knots which can pick up some extra flick speed due to the slack. -- Roger Long |
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The answer on jib sheets
Roger Long wrote:
This has got to be the way to do it for roller jibs or other headsails you don't need to detach for quick sheet changes. With the trick I've been trying to dredge out of my memory, it is very clean. http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Strider0603.htm#sheet The clump of rope (which will be smaller with the actual sheets) could still give you a good rap on the noggin but it actually pads the hardware in the corner of the sail. Knots right at the clew should also be less painful than bowline knots which can pick up some extra flick speed due to the slack. Is it my imagination or is the second sheet captured only by a loop of the first, and thus could pull it apart? I'm sure there's a way of avoiding this ... but it illudes me right now. |
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"Jeff" wrote
Is it my imagination or is the second sheet captured only by a loop of the first, and thus could pull it apart? I'm sure there's a way of avoiding this ... but it illudes me right now. It's your imagination (or lack thereof right at this moment). Both loops are held by their own standing parts. It's hard to convey in the pictures but will be come clear if you fiddle with a couple of spliced loops. BTW I know that most of you don't have problems with bowlines and other knots hanging up on the shrouds. I don't either when I'm sailing alone or with an experienced crew. A lot of my sailing is with people, often kids, that I'm trying to talk through the process and poor timing of the steering and line handling makes a big difference. I hate to see that wincher grinding for all he or she is worth when all the strain is being taken by the foreward lowers as I try to get the hesitant helmsman to give her another quarter turn. -- Roger Long |
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Roger,
A thought, maybe your original intent, don't know. Anyway, being slow it just occurred to me. Make up one sheet with your largish eye splice that get threaded through the cringle and doubled back. Make up another sheet that has its eye splice through the first sheet's eye splice. (I'm assuming this is possible never having come close to mastering double braid splicing) This has the potential of reducing the mass of line to pull across the shrouds. BF "Roger Long" wrote in message ... "Jeff" wrote Is it my imagination or is the second sheet captured only by a loop of the first, and thus could pull it apart? I'm sure there's a way of avoiding this ... but it illudes me right now. It's your imagination (or lack thereof right at this moment). Both loops are held by their own standing parts. It's hard to convey in the pictures but will be come clear if you fiddle with a couple of spliced loops. BTW I know that most of you don't have problems with bowlines and other knots hanging up on the shrouds. I don't either when I'm sailing alone or with an experienced crew. A lot of my sailing is with people, often kids, that I'm trying to talk through the process and poor timing of the steering and line handling makes a big difference. I hate to see that wincher grinding for all he or she is worth when all the strain is being taken by the foreward lowers as I try to get the hesitant helmsman to give her another quarter turn. -- Roger Long |
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You wouldn't want to pull on an eye splice that way. It would be very
prone to coming apart. -- Roger Long "BF" wrote in message ... Roger, A thought, maybe your original intent, don't know. Anyway, being slow it just occurred to me. Make up one sheet with your largish eye splice that get threaded through the cringle and doubled back. Make up another sheet that has its eye splice through the first sheet's eye splice. (I'm assuming this is possible never having come close to mastering double braid splicing) This has the potential of reducing the mass of line to pull across the shrouds. BF "Roger Long" wrote in message ... "Jeff" wrote Is it my imagination or is the second sheet captured only by a loop of the first, and thus could pull it apart? I'm sure there's a way of avoiding this ... but it illudes me right now. It's your imagination (or lack thereof right at this moment). Both loops are held by their own standing parts. It's hard to convey in the pictures but will be come clear if you fiddle with a couple of spliced loops. BTW I know that most of you don't have problems with bowlines and other knots hanging up on the shrouds. I don't either when I'm sailing alone or with an experienced crew. A lot of my sailing is with people, often kids, that I'm trying to talk through the process and poor timing of the steering and line handling makes a big difference. I hate to see that wincher grinding for all he or she is worth when all the strain is being taken by the foreward lowers as I try to get the hesitant helmsman to give her another quarter turn. -- Roger Long |
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"Roger Long" wrote in message
... "Jeff" wrote Is it my imagination or is the second sheet captured only by a loop of the first, and thus could pull it apart? I'm sure there's a way of avoiding this ... but it illudes me right now. It's your imagination (or lack thereof right at this moment). Both loops are held by their own standing parts. It's hard to convey in the pictures but will be come clear if you fiddle with a couple of spliced loops. BTW I know that most of you don't have problems with bowlines and other knots hanging up on the shrouds. I don't either when I'm sailing alone or with an experienced crew. A lot of my sailing is with people, often kids, that I'm trying to talk through the process and poor timing of the steering and line handling makes a big difference. I hate to see that wincher grinding for all he or she is worth when all the strain is being taken by the foreward lowers as I try to get the hesitant helmsman to give her another quarter turn. Hmmm... well, I mostly sail with novices and students. They have to learn at some point, and this is one of the things they need to learn... how to prevent this from happening. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Okay, see your point. Lets complicate matters a bit then.
One quite short line with a largish eye in one end that's looped through the cringle and a smaller eye at the other end. Now splice the two sheets to this smaller eye with the smallest of eyes. Should pull across the shrouds cleanly. BF "Roger Long" wrote in message ... You wouldn't want to pull on an eye splice that way. It would be very prone to coming apart. -- Roger Long "BF" wrote in message ... Roger, A thought, maybe your original intent, don't know. Anyway, being slow it just occurred to me. Make up one sheet with your largish eye splice that get threaded through the cringle and doubled back. Make up another sheet that has its eye splice through the first sheet's eye splice. (I'm assuming this is possible never having come close to mastering double braid splicing) This has the potential of reducing the mass of line to pull across the shrouds. BF "Roger Long" wrote in message ... "Jeff" wrote Is it my imagination or is the second sheet captured only by a loop of the first, and thus could pull it apart? I'm sure there's a way of avoiding this ... but it illudes me right now. It's your imagination (or lack thereof right at this moment). Both loops are held by their own standing parts. It's hard to convey in the pictures but will be come clear if you fiddle with a couple of spliced loops. BTW I know that most of you don't have problems with bowlines and other knots hanging up on the shrouds. I don't either when I'm sailing alone or with an experienced crew. A lot of my sailing is with people, often kids, that I'm trying to talk through the process and poor timing of the steering and line handling makes a big difference. I hate to see that wincher grinding for all he or she is worth when all the strain is being taken by the foreward lowers as I try to get the hesitant helmsman to give her another quarter turn. -- Roger Long |
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Roger Long wrote:
You wouldn't want to pull on an eye splice that way. It would be very prone to coming apart. Roger, I remember a discussion like this in a book somewhere and the solution they found was to use a single line with the jib cringle made fast in the middle. After some looking on the Internet I found this article: http://www.angelfire.com/de2/WIT/TJhalsheet.html There is a couple of ideas there. I think that if you want no knot then you have to come up with a way to splice an eye onto the clew in the middle of the continuous sheet. Gary |
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The answer on jib sheets
Roger Long wrote:
This has got to be the way to do it for roller jibs or other headsails you don't need to detach for quick sheet changes. With the trick I've been trying to dredge out of my memory, it is very clean. http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Strider0603.htm#sheet The clump of rope (which will be smaller with the actual sheets) could still give you a good rap on the noggin but it actually pads the hardware in the corner of the sail. Knots right at the clew should also be less painful than bowline knots which can pick up some extra flick speed due to the slack. The bowline has stood the test of time (about 300 years), it is easy to untie, unless you're an idiot, and if the problem is one of catching on the standing rigging, just put thin nylon tubing over the lower part of the standing rigging concerned. A sharp tug and the nylon spins, releasing the knot. Dennis. |
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The answer on jib sheets
That's an unusually high failure rate, Dave! What kind of problems are
you having with your bowlines? The bowline is the default knot for securing jibs because it works well for most folks on most boats most of the time, but it's always nice to hear about the exceptions and their solutions. -- Tom. |
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