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sterngucker
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Initially Posted - 02/21/2008 :  14:54:21  Show Profile
Here's a teaser...


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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/21/2008 :  15:33:53  Show Profile
Nice photo. Tell us more about the mainsheet set-up. Can you adjust at the traveler as well as the boom, or just at the boom? I've seen slightly different set-ups on C-22's where they do gross trimming at the boom and fine tuning at the traveler.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 02/21/2008 :  17:51:25  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Gary, are you tethered to the boom?
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Don B
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Response Posted - 02/21/2008 :  18:49:11  Show Profile
Wouldn't that hurt if you gybe??
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/21/2008 :  22:19:15  Show Profile
Upon closer examination of the picture, I can see the error of my question. His mainsheet starts at the becket under the block at the end of the boom, and although it looks like he has a fiddle block with cam on the traveler, it appears that he is bypassing the cam. I withdraw my question!
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 02/22/2008 :  11:12:50  Show Profile
Why would you tether yourself to the boom??
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wmeinert@kconline.com
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Response Posted - 02/22/2008 :  11:26:51  Show Profile
This is the same set up that most of the C-22's use when they are racing, the only thing they do different is that they can also sheet in their mains at both the top and bottom blocks somehow.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 02/22/2008 :  11:26:52  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Nautiduck</i>
<br />Why would you tether yourself to the boom??
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To make it safer to adjust the mainsheet when he's running downwind and the boom is over the side.
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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 02/22/2008 :  12:32:39  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
I immediately noticed he was tethered to the boom. Not a good idea and the tether looks short too!
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/22/2008 :  16:54:48  Show Profile
wmeinert: ...they can also sheet in their mains at both the top and bottom blocks somehow.

Following the picture above, the main sheet would run from the mid-boom swivel cam through the smaller block under the end of the boom, down to the upper sheave on the fiddle block, then up to the larger single block hanging on the tang at the end of the boom, then back down to the lower fiddle block sheave and through the cam. Ignore the beckets. This allows more pronounced adjustments on the main from the mid-boom line, and smaller, more precise adjustments under heavier loads using the main at the traveler end.
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/22/2008 :  17:09:01  Show Profile
Steve, I think the tether is a good length but, I can't for the life of me figure out the connection to the boom. A short (2 metre) tether will keep you on the boat. A longer one will keep you connected but potentially alongside or trailing behind.
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