[Public-List] topping lifts

[Rolph and Joan Townshend via Public-List]

I think so, Gordon. It is important to keep the main in sailing trim, flat
and airfoil shaped. With a tight topping lift the boom can not be
positioned to give the main the proper set. Yes, it keeps the boom from
doing things you would rather it didn't do, but you sacrifice shape and
therefore the effectiveness of your main. If the boom then hits the dodger
either the dodger is too tall or the sail is too long.
Towney.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Ha ha, No Gordon, you’ve not been in error... you’ve been a good seaman.
>
> The rope lift is quite safe with regard to wear on your leach.
>
> Gord
>  #426 Surprise
>
> On 2017-09-25, 4:52 PM, "Public-List on behalf of gordon white via
> Public-List" <public-list-bounces at lists.alberg30.org on behalf of
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
>          O.K., I'm going to reveal my ignorance here. I have been sailing
>     since 1942, not only on my boats, but with a number of other sailors on
>     other boats, but I have never seen a topping lift un-hooked from the
>     boom while sailing.  Now I once had a gaff-rigged schooner that had no
>     topping lifts, but on marconi-rigged sloops the topping lift has always
>     remained in place.
>
>          It keeps the boom from hitting my dodger (or my head) when coming
>     about and has other uses, mostly involving safety. Attempting to
> release
>     and re-attach a lift even in a near-calm, strikes me as hazardous. I
>     have a woven dacron topping lift that does not seem to hazard the roach
>     of the main.
>
>
>          Have I been sadly in error these 75 years??
>
>
>     Gordon White
>
>     Brigadoon II
>
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