[Public-List] Tack hooks

[David Tessier]

I replaced my sliding gooseneck with a fixed one and looked at many alternatives for reefing tack hooks and possible attachement points.

I finally decided to adopt the late Hal Roth's method of lashing the tack down around the gooseneck with a piece of light line (two passes) and a reef knot.  I did so less because of the much discussed tendency of the tack to come loose from the tack hook before the main halyard is re-tensioned, but rather out of my enthusiasm for Hal Roth's approach to many aspects of seamanship, including short-handed mainsail reefing, whisker pole deployment, and dropping anchor under sail.
 
(Sailing to windward short handed with the Genoa sheeted in, I lash the tiller, and either raise the mainsail when leaving harbour or reef the mainsail when the breeze gets up, at the mast, and at my leisure.  Or else I heave to and reef the mainsail. I like the stable attitude that the A30 readily assumes in both cases - - no rushing back to the tiller required.  Both of these methods have also worked for me on a Beneteau 235 with its fin keel and separate transom hung rudder.)
 
Cheers,
DFTessier
A30#319 TROIS BOULEAUX
 
 
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:40:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Taylor <m_tayau at yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: [Public-List] Tack Hooks
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The sliding gooseneck fitting is going to be replaced with a bracket that will fix the boom position on the mast. As part of this work I would like to fit tack hooks onto the vertical pin of the gooseneck fitting. The effect of doing this is going to put the tack of the mainsail very close to the mast. I am trying to picture what it is going to be like having this arrangement. The tack hooks I have in mind secure to the mast fitting under the head of the vertical bolt. 

Having this arrangement enables the vertical bolt to be pulled up tight without binding the toggle but I am not sure that it will be practical having the tack so close to the mast. The alternative maybe to have the tack hooks as part of the toggle itself but I have not seen any sizes that will fit into the fork of the boom fitting.

Does anyone have a configuration that you have been happy with or maybe how yours could be improved?

And thanks for the suggestions on the Cutlass and Boom question! 

Mick

 		 	   		  
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