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mfasis
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Initially Posted - 01/29/2006 : 15:37:29

Has anybody installed the Double Ended Mainsheet with Ratchet Blocks (http://www.catalinadirect.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display& Product_ID=638) available from Catalina Direct? I sail mostly single-handed and I just have never felt very confident with my ability to let the mainsheet out in a puff. I was out one weekend in some relatively light wind when a front came through and scared the heck out of me. It took me way to long to release the mainsheet. This looks like a good idea because it would give you better access to the mainsheet.

Mark Britton
Huntington, NY
'82 C25 FK/SR #3202
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 01/29/2006 : 16:06:42

I haven't used the double ended mainsheet, but, if you lay the existing mainsheet on top of the tiller, and then grasp the tiller and mainsheet with your steering hand, then you'll be able to yank the mainsheet out of the cleat quickly whenever you need to ease out the sheet. You won't have to reach for the mainsheet. It'll be right there in your hand.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/29/2006 : 17:13:36

Mark,

After replacing the original mainsheet blocks, I experimented with different sheeting angles for the cam cleats on the new fiddle block until I found an angle that worked best for me.

Why did it take you "way too long" to release the mainsheet?

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 01/29/2006 : 19:53:55

Like the others said, I too, make sure the mainsheet cam cleat is at an easy to release angle, and I use a ratcheting fiddle block. when I'm sailing in heavy air or gusty conditions, I make it a point to keep the tail of the mainsheet very handy.

I think this habit was beat into my head by years of singlehanding a Lightning in relatively open water. The only time it ever capsized, the trimmer missed her grab for the mainsheet in a gust, and was standing on the tail of the jibsheet after she got it out of the cleat jaws. Oops!

-- Leon Sisson

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mashedcat
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Response Posted - 01/30/2006 : 00:36:02

Mark
If you check this link you'll find a picture of Jim B's midboom sheeting. the setup is the same as that for double ended. I'm modifying mineto be double ended. It should look just like Jim's except that i entend to leave the aft end ability to cleat. I doubt that I'll get mine done before i step my mast again in the spring, so I wont be able to post a picture right away, but if you use the picture of Jim's plus the picture in the CD book youshould be able to figure out how to do it. I think the distance from the end of the boom is a matter of comfort for you.

http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/mods.html

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