A sail tack
- Thread starter JDREHER
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There are probably as many "recommended" ways as there are owners.
A sprit would help to get the tack forward of the bow pulpit which would be ideal,bit then there is the matter of cost.
My 323 has a padeye on the deck near the bow. I attach a block there and another to a hole in the anchor roller bracket . That helps to get the tack forward of the forestay.
I attach the tack line to the sail outside the bow pulpit. The line is run through the blocks. I believe the factory intended the tack line to be secured th one of the bow cleats. Finding that somewhat inconvenient, I elected to run a longer tack line back to a Spinlock on the cabin top.
I run the sheets outside of the forestay and the bow pulpit and back through the blocks on the stern padeyes, then to the sheet winches. I do have a sleeve which really makes launching and recovery fairly painless.
A sprit would help to get the tack forward of the bow pulpit which would be ideal,bit then there is the matter of cost.
My 323 has a padeye on the deck near the bow. I attach a block there and another to a hole in the anchor roller bracket . That helps to get the tack forward of the forestay.
I attach the tack line to the sail outside the bow pulpit. The line is run through the blocks. I believe the factory intended the tack line to be secured th one of the bow cleats. Finding that somewhat inconvenient, I elected to run a longer tack line back to a Spinlock on the cabin top.
I run the sheets outside of the forestay and the bow pulpit and back through the blocks on the stern padeyes, then to the sheet winches. I do have a sleeve which really makes launching and recovery fairly painless.
A strap, a shackle and block attached to your bow roller works fine and puts the sail tack forward of your furled foresail. My bow roller has a 1/2" hole in the side-plate which works nicely.
http://www.neilprydesails.com/images/pdf/cs_trim.pdf
http://www.neilprydesails.com/images/pdf/cs_trim.pdf
Beware of the bow light if the light might be in the way of the tack line. We ran the tack-line under the anchor roller and lost our light. We ended up crafting a protective cage with two U-bolts, one above the light and one below.
Thank you all. Most helpful. I will put a block inside the pulpit before the forstay and run the tack through that. not ideal, but workable.
Sorry no current photos. I use two systems, one for day sails, another for cruises. On day sails I wrap a strip of webbing around the bow roller and clip a block w/snap shackle to the webbing to control the tack line. On cruises I actually shackle the tack block to the hole Beneteau provided in the bow roller side plate. I then bungie it to the bow pulpit to keep if in working position - for fast spinnaker sets / furls.