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Initially Posted - 06/22/2009 : 09:25:16

I was doin gsome tinkering on th erace this past weekend, and I tried sheeting my 155% Genoa on the inside to my cabintop winches.

I found that this was a sure recipe for overrides; however, by leading the sheet around the leeward cabintop winch, and then across to the windward cabintop winch, I could effectively sheet inside, and bring the sail up by about a foot from the genoa track, still keeping the top of the sail off the spreaders by 6" or so.

Since I was single-handling, it was difficult to maintain this, and I was sailing with an older sail (no tell-tales) so I couldn't see if I was stalling out the sail. Has anyone else tried this? What were your results? Did you point higher?

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/23/2009 : 04:56:55

If you weren't actually moving the jib blocks inboard I wonder how much if any you were bringing the genoa in. Unless you were abandoning jib blocks altogether? I'd wonder what that would do to sail shape.

We've cross sheeted (but not to the cabin) the jib sheets before when we needed everyone on the rail and that seemed to give us additional pointing ability, though it was probably more attributable to keeping the boat flatter, as the sail would still run along the same track.

Generally speaking, the cabintop winches were for the tri-radial kites and the halyards.

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PZell
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Response Posted - 06/23/2009 : 13:18:49

I have been able to get a wee bit more out of the bigger genoa in light air by using a handy billie as a barber hauler. One end around the clew and the other on the bail of the vang on the boom. It is real touchy though on how far you bring in the sail. Too far and you lose the advantage.

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 06/25/2009 : 17:05:12

On my friend's Capri 26, we have had good results with a barber hauler. We use a 3/8" to 7/16" line about 10 ft long, bowline forming a loop in one end. The loop goes over the high (windward) side cabin-top winch, the line comes across the cabin top and around the genoa sheet, then up to the leeward cabin-top winch. Set and adjustments are done by the main sheet trimmer stationed in the companionway because he also has a cabin-top traveler for the main sheet..

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