New sailor with my first sailboat, an Ericson 31 Independence! Cutter question…

Enchantress

Junior Member
Here’s how ours is setup. As far as I know it is the factory setup.
The sheet is secured on the starboard side of the traveler, runs thru the single block on the car, up to a single block on the clew of the staysail, back to the car, then to the turning block just aft of the traveler on the port side. It continues back on the cabin top to a cleat at the cockpit. The car is attached to the green flecked line which also leads aft to the cockpit. That lets you drop the car further to leeward as desired. It’s not setup to go more to windward but not sure that would be necessary for a staysail.

Hope that helps. Sorry the pictures aren’t great. I took those as a reminder of how to reassemble things when we were taking everything apart, preparing to transport from her former home.

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Brilliant! That’s very helpful. I’m glad there is any method for trimming for the traveler portion at all. This was super helpful and this is a pretty smart and efficient even if you can’t trim as much to windward.
 
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