Halyards, reef, cunningham, vang, outhaul, tack for asso. Basically everthing but the sheets, is there any reason at all with todays low/no stretch lines to use anything bigger than 8mm(5/16th) on a boat my size?
That might effect your deck hardware, but not so much your boat. ;^)Well, no ST'ers on my boat so far, all those lines mentioned will be run through cam cleats or stoppers sized properly. And the tack line will be fed through a stopper backed up by a winch so nobody's gonna' throw their back out trying to haul it in like on buddys boat. lol
Only caveat I've heard is loads generated by lines with no give on older boats not engineered to handle the loading. But C&C's aren't, to my knowledge, cheaply built, and again, only 343 sq ft sail srea.
What's "old" Pre 2000 or older? My Lewmar ST winches are 1999. I planned to run smaller diameter halyards, sheets & control lines than I currently have on the boat.The exception. Older boats with older ST (Barients, Barlow, OLD lewmars etc) winches will often have fixed jaws that will not grip much smaller line. Then you're stuck.
Grab some smaller line and do a test.What's "old" Pre 2000 or older? My Lewmar ST winches are 1999. I planned to run smaller diameter halyards, sheets & control lines than I currently have on the boat.
The current ocean winches (née 1995) have spring loaded caps. The older ones (with screws on top) do not.What's "old" Pre 2000 or older? My Lewmar ST winches are 1999. I planned to run smaller diameter halyards, sheets & control lines than I currently have on the boat.
Yeah, that's my plan for upwind sails but I think I'm right in thinking I can save some dough on spin halyards where stretch don't matter no how.That might effect your deck hardware, but not so much your boat. ;^)
The REAL effect of that comes when you combine low stretch cordage with modern sails. If you're flying dacron, it will just stretch a bit more to absorb the extra shock.
Thats not true. Any stretch or a halyard or sheet is lost power. Power that could have been used to drive the boat forward, but instead just stretched a line.Yeah, that's my plan for upwind sails but I think I'm right in thinking I can save some dough on spin halyards where stretch don't matter no how.
In theory yes, but in typical practice almost never. The gaps on the side of a well designed sheave is so small that any realistically sized line will not catch.YUP....one good reason... small diameter line running thru blocks ( over sheaves) meant for larger lines have a tendency to jump and get pinched....