[Public-List] Main Sheet Setup

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Hello Greg, 

That is the original set-up which I have on #133, a 1966 boat.  It works fine for lazy daysailing. I see two drawbacks to this system. The non-tailing "cooling tower shape" winch requires the horn cleat to fix the mainsheet. This makes it difficult to quickly "blow the main" it you wanted to in a gust of wind.  I suppose one could install a tailing winch to eliminate the horn cleat.  The other issue is that it is impossible to trim the main boom to centerline with this arrangement. For lazy daysailing these are not really issues.........unless you get so lazy that you are not watching for gusts and puffs of wind. 



Most owners have up-graded to the installation of a track traveler mounted on the aft deck just aft of the cockpit bulkhead. The traveler with it's attendant new main tackle, including either a cam or clutch cleat, nicely solves both of the drawbacks of the original system. 

Michael 
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From: gregr at nethere.com 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:16:50 PM 
Subject: [Public-List] Main Sheet Setup 

Ayla was built in '64 and has what I assume is the original main sheet 
setup. There is a pad-eye on each side of the cockpit just forward of the 
aft hatch and a winch in the middle. The sheet starts at the  port pad-eye, 
runs through a block on the end of the boom, down to the SB pad-eye, back up 
to the boom, down to the port pad-eye, and finally over to the winch. 

What is the recommended setup and how much will it improve things over what 
I have? I'm not looking to race her but I'm not a big fan of having to use a 
winch to trim the main either. 

Greg 
S/V Ayla 
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