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Designwiz
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Initially Posted - 07/09/2004 :  16:10:35  Show Profile
Hi:
Interested in hearing from anyone who has put jacklines on a Catalina 25 and what they used for mounting points bow and stern. Purchased jack lines with S.S. clips on both ends. Thethers are the 6 foot stretchy style. Thank You for any help....
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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 07/09/2004 :  16:31:51  Show Profile
Hi Bruce,

I run my jack lines from the bow cleats back to the stern cleats. The jack lines are nylon webbing and the end I attach to the bow has a snap shackle. They're run outside of the stanchions and pulled as tight as I can get them. My objective, since I singlehand, is to stay with the boat, but also to be able to make my way back to the swim ladder. My tether is a Wichard 3'/6' with a snap shackle for the D ring on the harness.

Hope this helps,
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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 07/10/2004 :  00:11:51  Show Profile  Visit Leon Sisson's Homepage
My jacklines are set up similar to J.B. Manley's. I use 3/8" doublebraid nylon tied between the pulpit and sternrail stanchions. Jacklines are tensioned by trucker's hitch at aft end. I used to keep them tight, but have loosened them enough to not interfere with the jib sheet lead cars.

My tether is the 3' & 6' 'V' or 'Y' style with the safety clips at the jackline ends, and a more conventional snapshackle with beaded "ripcord" at the harness attachment end. My harness includes an inflatable PFD with optional auto-inflate.

Haven't tested any of that yet, but did try out the lifelines once.

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Bill Holcomb
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Response Posted - 07/10/2004 :  09:49:02  Show Profile
I use 1" nylon webbing with a loop triple stitched at both ends. The loops are secured to the forward and aft mooring cleats with locking caribiners. The jacklines webbing lies flat on the side decks, and outboard of the shrouds.

Bill Holcomb - C25 Snickerdoodle #4839
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Gloss
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Response Posted - 07/11/2004 :  05:55:05  Show Profile
So what are the advantages/disadvantages of running the jacklines outside of the stanchions, or on the side decks?
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Response Posted - 07/11/2004 :  07:48:32  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 Gloss</i>
<br />So what are the advantages/disadvantages of running the jacklines outside of the stanchions, or on the side decks?
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Oooo-ooooo... I know that one! Outside of the stanchions, if you go over, you can stay clipped on, move back to the stern, and reach the boarding ladder. (Is that true if the jacklines terminate at the forward end of the sternrail?) I'm also wondering how much the tether tends to catch the tops of the stanchions as you move around... (Having only recently becoming a single-hander, I need to look into all of this.)
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Gloss
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Response Posted - 07/11/2004 :  08:57:29  Show Profile
First of all, I don't have jacklines and have never used them so I'm just guessing.
It would seem that outboard jacklines would catch on the tops of the stanchions, as would inboard jacklines. You would also need a longer tether to go over the lifeline, and it would catch on the stanchions as you move about.

Has anybody actually done man overboard testing of their jackline setup?

It would be far simpler to just have Scotty beam you up
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