reefing

Hi, I recently acquired a 2005 146 and am looking forward to my first sail on it this weekend. I've been lurking on this forum for a few days and just joined. I have a question about rigging it for reefing. The main has one set of reef points, but there's no reefing lines, no apparent place...

I would like to add a simple reefing system on my Newport 28. The sail looks to be set up for 2 reef points with cringles. However, I'm unsure how the reefing may have been done in the past. I'm trying to wrap my head around the current hardware installed on the boom and how the outhaul is...

Hello everyone - this is my first post, but I've spent hours consuming a lot of helpful info on these forums. About two months ago I moved up from a 1986 Catalina 25 to a 1996 Hunter 280 and I've been working through a long to-do list while trying to sail her as much as time will allow. My C25...

A quick question as I want to take advantage of the Memorial Day sales online. As I have posted previously, at some point a lot of the running rigging on our 1984 Hunter 34 were cut and removed by a previous owner. My question this morning is: What diameter lines and lengths are folks using for...

So a few years ago I bought a sailboat... And I found out why its called a mid-life crisis, because when I first took her out, I ended up in crisis. I took my Catalina 22 out alone for the first sail, just incase anything bad happened it would be just me in trouble. So, I put her in the water...

Hey guys, I just bought an 85 Catalina 30TR, and it looks like the previous owner never rigged the mainsail for reefing. The setup at the aft end of the boom is setup nicely with the two cars on the starboard side of the boom for jiffy reefing, but it looks like there is no real setup at the...

Hi, hope someone can help me find a clear picture or drawing of the goose neck rigging setup. The manuals are not clear enough for me to understand completely. On my last sail we had to quickly douse the sails and I lost the gooseneck pin, and a thin clamp fell off from somewhere (mystery to...

I'm replacing the main sail. The boom is a U.S. Spars Z160. There are three internal lines (outhaul, topping lift, reefing). However, the previous owner didn't use original colors, or lengths. It's not in the owner's manual, not on the Z-spars site that I could find, and not previously...

I am wondering if anyone still exists who uses the once popular system of rolling down a incremental reef in the mainsail using a gear reduction hand crank built into the gooseneck of the boom itself. It works fine, for reefing, I am hoping to find anyone who knows more about...

I recently purchased a 1990 Hunter Vision 32. The owner removed a reef during sea trial and wasn't sure how to reinstall. Does anyone have a diagram or step by step guide to the reefing system. I believe it is a jiffy reef system. Looking in the boom I can't figure out how to route the reefs...

I have a 1984 Hunter 27 I need the Reefing/Outhaul Line jamb on the Starboard side of the boom. I would assume that this part would be common across the Hunter line, but I've been wrong before. The salvage yards I contacted are not willing to part out the boom. Anyone one know of one that...

I have a 1985 H31 that has a number of hardware/gadgets/lines on the boom that are apparently associated with reefing, or at least mainsail operation. However, the reefing instructions in the manual don't identify or discuss half of this stuff. Further, there is a small metal "bracket" on the...