Is there anyone out there that has seen an outhaul mechanism like the one in the attached photo? I bought this ‘old girl’ a few months ago and can’t figure out how it’s suppose to tighten the sail. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. FROCKY
Outhaul for a MORGAN 28
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Is there anyone out there that has seen an outhaul mechanism like the one in the attached photo? I bought this ‘old girl’ a few months ago and can’t figure out how it’s suppose to tighten the sail. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. FROCKY
Isn‘t figuring out stuff on a boat fun!
Where does the cable I circled go? I would suspect it goes over a sheave at the end of the boom, then through the boom to the mast…but then where? On my boat, the outhaul goes into the boom, back to the mast, then down to the cabin top and through a line organizer and back to the cockpit so I can tighten it on a cabin-top winch. Yours appears to be cable…so maybe it does to a cable winch?
I am assuming the car on the boom somehow attaches to the clew of the sail, and if the car is moved back, it pulls the foot of the sail tight?
Where does the cable I circled go? I would suspect it goes over a sheave at the end of the boom, then through the boom to the mast…but then where? On my boat, the outhaul goes into the boom, back to the mast, then down to the cabin top and through a line organizer and back to the cockpit so I can tighten it on a cabin-top winch. Yours appears to be cable…so maybe it does to a cable winch?
I am assuming the car on the boom somehow attaches to the clew of the sail, and if the car is moved back, it pulls the foot of the sail tight?
Isn‘t figuring out stuff on a boat fun!
Where does the cable I circled go? I would suspect it goes over a sheave at the end of the boom, then through the boom to the mast…but then where? On my boat, the outhaul goes into the boom, back to the mast, then down to the cabin top and through a line organizer and back to the cockpit so I can tighten it on a cabin-top winch. Yours appears to be cable…so maybe it does to a cable winch?
I am assuming the car on the boom somehow attaches to the clew of the sail, and if the car is moved back, it pulls the foot of the sail tight?
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[/QUOTE “Thank you for your response. YES ….the clew of the m’sail does attach to the car. I’ve not removed the backplate of the boom simply because I didn’t know if I might be opening a ‘Pandora’s Box’. I had one friend say he thought the boom on this MORGAN may have been equipped with a rolling boom that served as a reefing tool but that makes no sense to me. If I can’t find someone that KNOWS how this set up works, I’ll remove the backplate and see where that takes me.”]
Your explanation makes tons of sense but so far, I have not seen any sign of a winch that would enable the outhaul to be adjusted at all. Maybe someone ‘out there’ will see my cry for help.
That may be a wire to line connection and the end you pull may be a line at or near the mast..don't know, need more photos.
dj
Aside from where the cable goes I'm wondering why the cart has to be such a beast? And it's on a track from what I can see. What are the dimensions of the track? I'm wondering why in the wide world of sailboat hardware couldn't the OP find a smaller less intrusive cart? Maybe the whole system needs re-working.