windblown
Member III
We‘ve been using the main sheet set-up as it came with the boat, but it seems to me there are too many points of friction along the main sheet path. We have a rigid vang (gerhauer) and a boom brake/preventer (Walder), all from PO. The main sheet leaves its pulley system at the traveler and runs forward to a block at mid-boom, along the under/side of the boom (over the boom brake, over the boom vang) to a block under the gooseneck, straight down to a block on the mast collar, through the deck organizer, and back to the cockpit through a clutch. It rubs (and can catch) along the mast above the vang, and the gooseneck block can rub against the reef lines and tackle. I’ve re-organized some of the blocks on the mast collar to avert some of this, but is there any reason not to run the main sheet at an angle down from the mid-boom block (under the boom brake and vang) to a block at the mast collar, then through the organizer, and back to the cockpit through the clutch?
On the attached, the gold highlights shows the current route of the main sheet (under the sail cover, and actually along the port side of the boom), and the green line shows the proposed route. . .
Thanks, in advance, for your wisdom and counsel!
On the attached, the gold highlights shows the current route of the main sheet (under the sail cover, and actually along the port side of the boom), and the green line shows the proposed route. . .
Thanks, in advance, for your wisdom and counsel!