Hello everyone, thanks in advance for any input, especially pictures of your rig.
Just bought a 1981 Hunter 30 Cherubini design. Boat is on the hard, the mast is not stepped. We are going through her for an early spring launch in Washington, NC. I am a fairly well experience coastal cruiser, I grew up sailing Hobie Cats, there was a Catalina 24 swing keel, pop-top boat we sailed for a while, then a Watkins 27 my father and I sailed, then I bought and refurbed a Jack Helms 26 a few years ago, now onto the Hunter 30. Girl friend and I will be sailing the Carolina coast with this shoal draft version this summer.
We are currently inspecting / cleaning / rigging the mast and boom and most of it works out for me but a couple questions I have about the traveler and main sheet set up. The traveler is the cabin top mounted system and I have a familiar looking block set up for the main sheet except for the boom. The boom has three large shackle points with single blocks and i am unsure of how that rig works. There is an H27 on the yard with a similar boom set up, but that boat has no traveler. Just an "A" style set up with two blocks and cleats. So not the same. I am wondering if I need to learn this set up, or is it as it appears with my sheet and blocks, that I can just snap onto one of the boom shackles and haul like the other set ups I am familiar with.
Any advice? Photos of your set up?
Just bought a 1981 Hunter 30 Cherubini design. Boat is on the hard, the mast is not stepped. We are going through her for an early spring launch in Washington, NC. I am a fairly well experience coastal cruiser, I grew up sailing Hobie Cats, there was a Catalina 24 swing keel, pop-top boat we sailed for a while, then a Watkins 27 my father and I sailed, then I bought and refurbed a Jack Helms 26 a few years ago, now onto the Hunter 30. Girl friend and I will be sailing the Carolina coast with this shoal draft version this summer.
We are currently inspecting / cleaning / rigging the mast and boom and most of it works out for me but a couple questions I have about the traveler and main sheet set up. The traveler is the cabin top mounted system and I have a familiar looking block set up for the main sheet except for the boom. The boom has three large shackle points with single blocks and i am unsure of how that rig works. There is an H27 on the yard with a similar boom set up, but that boat has no traveler. Just an "A" style set up with two blocks and cleats. So not the same. I am wondering if I need to learn this set up, or is it as it appears with my sheet and blocks, that I can just snap onto one of the boom shackles and haul like the other set ups I am familiar with.
Any advice? Photos of your set up?