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Bruce Baker
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Initially Posted - 07/23/2003 : 11:38:37

I'm planning to run my reef lines and outhaul back into the cockpit. I've got a plate at the foot of my mast and a couple of blocks, but I haven't figured out how to attach the blocks to the mast end of the boom. Any thoughts?

Bruce Baker
Falls Church, VA
"Yee Ha" 3573
'83SR/SK

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Bill Holcomb
Admiral

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Response Posted - 07/23/2003 : 13:16:12

Hi Bruce.

On Snickerdoodle, I used a double cheek block near the gooseneck to direct both the first and second reef lines. Inner sheeve for the first reef line; outer sheeve for the second reef line. To secure the cheek block I drilled and tapped holes to accept SS machine bolts.

Bill Holcomb - C25 Snickerdoodle #4839

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 07/23/2003 : 18:44:39

Bruce,

Like Bill Holcomb, I use cheek blocks to route my single line reefing along the sides of my boom. I ran one reef on each side. The cheek blocks are attached with #10-NC machine screws in tapped holes.

To get both reef lines on the same side of the boom at the gooseneck, I run the first reef <i>across</i> through the reef tack cringle as shown in most single-line slab reefing schematics. The second reef pulls down on its reef tack cringle via a single bullet block with a cunningham hook, so that line <i>doesn't cross over</i> at the luff. From the reef tacks, both lines pass through a lined fairlead on the side of the mast near the lowest position of the boom. To determine the position of all these blocks, etc., it helped to assemble the whole thing with no fasteners on a windless day, pull each block, fairlead, etc. so that it produced the fairest lead, and then mark, drill, tap, and attach.

Since I have a sliding gooseneck (and lots of lines lead aft already), I didn't bring my outhaul all the way back on the cabin top. Instead, the internal outhaul emerges from the the boom via an exit block just aft of the gooseneck, turns back aft, and terminates at a pivoting cam cleat with turning block hanging under the boom about 4' aft of the gooseneck. The adjustable outhaul tail hangs down a foot or few, and is fairly easy to reach from the companionway.

All blocks are ball-bearing.

-- Leon Sisson

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