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Bruce Baker
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Initially Posted - 08/06/2004 :  10:34:17  Show Profile
I'd like to route my reefing line and outhaul back to the cockpit. I've already got turning blocks and clutches ready to go. My question is how to attach blocks to the forward end of the boom. I'm worried that when the boom swings from port to starboard, the angle of each line will change with respect to blocks on the deck, and the outhaul and reef lines will move in and out on the sail. How do I get the geometry right so that they don't move?
Bruce Baker
Falls Church, VA
"Yee Ha" 3573
'83SR/SK
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jwilliams
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Response Posted - 08/06/2004 :  12:18:42  Show Profile
Bruce,

The amount of tension change you will get from the change in angle is miniscule. I doubt if you could even measure it.

On Hey Jude my cheek blocks at the forward end of the boom are about three inches from the end.

I followed Bill Holcomb's set up for lines led aft, with triple and turning blocks clutches on both sides. On stbd is the main halyard and the two single-line-reefing lines for upper and lower reefs. On port is the topping lift, the Asym tack line (or spinnaker pole topping lift and down-haul if I ever rig a sym spinnaker). I have two turning blocks with cam cleats screwed to the mast about a foot above the base, these are for the clew out-haul and boom down-haul.

Connected to the base plate is the Boom vang with a wire doubling purchase that gives me 8:1.

"Too many ropes," says the Admiral. And Capt. Bligh made it to East Timor with just a halyard and a sheet, so did Shackelton to South Georgia. Amazing.

Jim Williams
Hey Jude C25fk 2958
SF Bay
Edited by - jwilliams on 08/06/2004 12:20:29
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