Fellow E-Yachters,
The foot of my headsail is resting on the bow railing on pretty much all points of sail. It's on a Harken roller-furler and I have pulled the halyard swivel up as far as it will go and have run the drum/basket as far out as as the manual says I can (2 inches of exposed thread on the turnbuckle - see pic). Neither of these two things solved the problem so I tied in a loop of line between the tack swivel and the tack (see pic) to allow the halyard swivel - and thus the sail - to sit further up the headstay and pull the foot off the railing.
But this can't be the correct solution, can it? Should I just put in an extra long shackle and be done with it?
I asked the sailmaker if the sail wasn't too big. He said that the sail fit the boat and the problem was that the bow railing was too high. This didn't sound right. Would someone really design a boat this way? The railing, I assume, is original.
I have what I believe to be the correct amount of rake pulled into the mast (the main halyard hangs 5 inches aft of the mast at the main boom) but anyway, pulling in more rake would do nothing more than straighten up the head stay. It wouldn't pull the headsail further up and away from the rail.
Thoughts?
Ed
"Kinnaree"
'91 E-34
The foot of my headsail is resting on the bow railing on pretty much all points of sail. It's on a Harken roller-furler and I have pulled the halyard swivel up as far as it will go and have run the drum/basket as far out as as the manual says I can (2 inches of exposed thread on the turnbuckle - see pic). Neither of these two things solved the problem so I tied in a loop of line between the tack swivel and the tack (see pic) to allow the halyard swivel - and thus the sail - to sit further up the headstay and pull the foot off the railing.
But this can't be the correct solution, can it? Should I just put in an extra long shackle and be done with it?
I asked the sailmaker if the sail wasn't too big. He said that the sail fit the boat and the problem was that the bow railing was too high. This didn't sound right. Would someone really design a boat this way? The railing, I assume, is original.
I have what I believe to be the correct amount of rake pulled into the mast (the main halyard hangs 5 inches aft of the mast at the main boom) but anyway, pulling in more rake would do nothing more than straighten up the head stay. It wouldn't pull the headsail further up and away from the rail.
Thoughts?
Ed
"Kinnaree"
'91 E-34