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JoergK
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Initially Posted - 07/26/2005 :  09:46:36  Show Profile
Since I recently installed lazy jacks, dropping the mainsail sometimes encounters difficulties - I guess the additional friction plays a role. Is it feasible to employ a mainsail "downhaul" to help bring the sail down (I do not refer to a cunningham or boom downhaul), and if so, where would the line be attached and how would it be routed?
Joerg
2002C250 WK "BerLyn"
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 07/26/2005 :  09:52:07  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Mac-lube first.
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jwilliams
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Response Posted - 07/26/2005 :  13:07:17  Show Profile
If you have rope-to-wire halyards, check to see if your connection point (where the rope meets the wire) is hanging on the spreader or lower fore shrouds. Mine does sometimes as I am heading into the wind to drop the main.

If you have all-rope halyards, it is a moot point.

Jim Williams
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Sea Trac
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Vanuatu
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Response Posted - 07/26/2005 :  13:19:48  Show Profile
Joerg,

My mainsail dousing (downhaul) line is attached to the becket on the upper most sail slide. The dousing line, along with all other lines, runs down through turning blocks and deck organizers to line jammers on the coach roof at the cockpit.

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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 07/27/2005 :  23:15:48  Show Profile
I did the same thing as "Antares"... with a 1/4" line (overkill at that) shackled to the uppermost slug. Don't attach it at the halyard on the headboard--that tends to pull the head to one side, which binds things a little. I uncoil and drop the dousing line into the companionway before raising the sail so that the dousing line runs free into the clutch. Sometimes I don't need it, and the sail drops like a rock--other times it's great to have.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 07/28/2005 :  08:42:37  Show Profile
As Bill Holcomb once suggested, every now and then I pour liquid dishwashing soap on my sail slugs before raising my main to clean and lube the kerf. After the soap treatment, the main pretty much freewheels down when the halyard is released.
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 07/28/2005 :  10:06:40  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">As Bill Holcomb once suggested, every now and then I pour liquid dishwashing soap on my sail slugs before raising my main to clean and lube the kerf. After the soap treatment, the main pretty much freewheels down when the halyard is released.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Thanks for reminding me how to do that, Don. Salt has apparently accumulated in my sailtrack and it makes the slides stick. Dishwashing soap and a good rain should clean it out nicely.
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ronrryan
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Response Posted - 07/28/2005 :  21:54:49  Show Profile
I do the same as Dave and J.B. and put a d-ring on a sail slug about 1/2 way down the luff, turing block at the mast base, through the organizer and back to a cam cleat. It IS important not to attach the dousing line to the headboard but rather to the first slug, for proper action. Fair winds, ron srsk Orion SW FL
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