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matsche
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Initially Posted - 08/18/2003 :  18:09:08  Show Profile
Almost every Cat-25 I've seen, including mine, has only one winch on the port side of the mast. For the jib halyard I presume. I would think that if you could only have one winch on the mast, you'd want it on the starboard side for the main halyard. What am I missing here? Is the jib considered harder to raise? That doesn't seem right. At least not on MY boat!

John Matsche 1985 TR/FK #5171
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Gloss
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Response Posted - 08/18/2003 :  19:37:53  Show Profile
I don't have any winch on the mast. I do have two on the cabin top
boat came that way

Frank Gloss
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 08/18/2003 :  19:47:50  Show Profile
You don't need a winch to <u>raise</u> either the mainsail or the jib, but you need it to put <u>tension</u> on the luff of the jib.

To tension the mainsail, all you have to do is raise it to the top of its hoist, cleat the halyard, and then sit on the boom to tension the luff. Then you cleat the downhaul to hold it in place. With my 210 lbs., I can stretch the luff of the mainsail like a guitar string.

The jib isn't harder to <u>raise</u>, but it is harder to put the correct amount of <u>tension</u> on it, once the sail is at the top of its hoist. It takes a lot of tension to stretch the luff of the jib as tight as it needs to be in strong winds. The jib doesn't have a downhaul. The only way you can adjust the luff tension is by pulling on the halyard.

Steve Milby "Captiva Wind" C-25 T/FK #2554
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matsche
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Response Posted - 08/18/2003 :  19:54:38  Show Profile
Ahhh... OK, that makes sense. I've always been curious about that. Thanks.

John Matsche 1985 TR/FK #5171
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matsche
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Response Posted - 08/18/2003 :  19:56:21  Show Profile
Whoa! I just got promoted to first mate! And after a year on the site. I really need to get out more!

John Matsche 1985 TR/FK #5171
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 08/18/2003 :  22:02:14  Show Profile
Ya, jump in John--the water's fine! <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT
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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 08/19/2003 :  00:24:00  Show Profile
Never used the Jib halyard or the mast winch (Quiet Time has one winch on the port side of the mast same as Matsche). I installed a CDI Furler before we launched the boat for the first time, so the Jib halyard has never been used... For those of you unfamiliar with the CDI Furler, it has it's own built-in halyard, so you don't use the boat's jib halyard. Roller furling equipped boats may not win many races, but the convenience sold me the first time I saw one in action.

Larry Charlot
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