This is a 1980 Hunter H27 that was basically derelict when I saved it. After cleaning it up a bit, I sail it all over the near coastal Gulf and use it as a condo at the beach... so there's that!
Anyhow, at the head of the main boom where the boom meets the mast, there are two small lines which appear to lead through the boom aft. One seems to be attached through the boom up to the masthead. That one I figure is to adjust the trim of the boom/mainsail, correct me if I'm wrong. It doesn't budge no matter how hard I pull it, (yeah I know... "that's what she said"). Would it be bad of me to replace that with a permanently affixed stainless cable? I'm not a technical sailor and have never used this thing... I'm sure it has a name.
The other seems to go in and disappear, but at the aft end of the main boom is a stainless cable attached to the clew of the sail... I suppose this is to provide tension on the foot of the mainsail and again I'm sure it has a name... unfortunately, the line coming out of the front of the boom is dry rotted to nothing and the stainless cable doesn't budge no matter how hard I pull... any ideas to fix that.. or again stainless cable to the aft of the boom and be done with it.
Anyhow any ideas or just a vocabulary lesson would be nifty.
Thanks
J Harris
Anyhow, at the head of the main boom where the boom meets the mast, there are two small lines which appear to lead through the boom aft. One seems to be attached through the boom up to the masthead. That one I figure is to adjust the trim of the boom/mainsail, correct me if I'm wrong. It doesn't budge no matter how hard I pull it, (yeah I know... "that's what she said"). Would it be bad of me to replace that with a permanently affixed stainless cable? I'm not a technical sailor and have never used this thing... I'm sure it has a name.
The other seems to go in and disappear, but at the aft end of the main boom is a stainless cable attached to the clew of the sail... I suppose this is to provide tension on the foot of the mainsail and again I'm sure it has a name... unfortunately, the line coming out of the front of the boom is dry rotted to nothing and the stainless cable doesn't budge no matter how hard I pull... any ideas to fix that.. or again stainless cable to the aft of the boom and be done with it.
Anyhow any ideas or just a vocabulary lesson would be nifty.
Thanks
J Harris