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Steve wrote:
... I will probably continue my practice on my sheets and halyards (I'm too old to climb the mast or chase a wild genoa sheet ... You didn't mention halyards earlier. I suspect that if these are _not_ stoppered they will eventually go aloft on just about any yacht. ... I have 2 different genoas and a working jib and use a roller furlering (as just a furler, seldom use it for roller reefing). However I use the same sheet on with sheet Bowline in each ... I mentioned this earlier, but anyway ... a long while back someone convinced me to set up dedicated sheets for each headsail. The sheets consist of a single length of rope (double the anticipated sheet length) with its middle point passed through the clew cringle in a bight, and with the remainder of the cordage looped through the bight. This is a lot harder to describe than to actually do. This rig doesn't hang on the shrouds, and it doesn't kill you if you get smacked in the head, but it's more expensive, heavier, requires stowing the sheets also when changing up or down, etc. Anyway ... -- Good luck and good sailing. s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat http://kerrydeare.home.comcast.net/ |
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