Running Rigging specs, Trust or Verify?

[peaman]

If you have, or considering someday having, a dodger, the dodger will dictate much about the placement of cabin-top winches and rope clutches. Most clutches open with the handles flipping forward, which requires placing them a few inches further aft of the dodger than you might have otherwise. Similarly, to get a full turn on a winch handle, the winch has to located inboard (near the companionway) to allow the handle to clear the dodger in all positions.

One example: https://ericsonyachts.org/ie/ubs/running-rigging-redux.825/

Amen to this. My (non-original) clutches all scrape the dodger isinglass, as does the 8" winch handle in any winch, including the one where the handle can't even make a full turn due to the adjacent winch. Will continue to ponder solutions as I make other more pressing upgrades over the winter.

 

[Prairie Schooner]

Thanks Ken and Peaman!
Yes, we do have a dodger, though the canvas is pretty worn out and we are going to revise or replace it. Good thoughts on remembering all the activity going on. The Lewmar clutches pull back to open.