Hunter Legend Mainsail Reefing

[Ringydingydo]

I'm buying a Legend 37. Reefing is not setup. The main has one reef point.
How is your Legend 37 set up?
Do you have the single line reefing like shown in Selden 'old boom' rigging guide?
Or do you have separate lines?

595-542-E.pdf (seldenmast.com)
42311 595-081-E.indd (seldenmast.com)

 

[walmsleyc]

The boat your looking at has Isomat spars. Isomat has diagrams to a similar "single line" internal car based system (uses a "boom shuttle block" ... see below). My boat is a 35.

The Isomat boom can be set up with the car (like the seldon), or with a single line all the way through (no car). The internal car based system has much lower friction that a signle line variant but it make your boom insides very busy.

After some experimentation I determined that a single line system had too much friction (not pictured), and I ended up with reefing lines that only draw down the clews, and use reefing horns at the goosneck. Yes, it requires going forward out of the cockpit, but it's still pretty quick to reef and has minimal friction.

Chris

 

[Ringydingydo]

The boat your looking at has Isomat spars. Isomat has diagrams to a similar "single line" internal car based system (uses a "boom shuttle block" ... see below). My boat is a 35.

The Isomat boom can be set up with the car (like the seldon), or with a single line all the way through (no car). The internal car based system has much lower friction that a signle line variant but it make your boom insides very busy.

After some experimentation I determined that a single line system had too much friction (not pictured), and I ended up with reefing lines that only draw down the clews, and use reefing horns at the goosneck. Yes, it requires going forward out of the cockpit, but it's still pretty quick to reef and has minimal friction.

Chris

Thanks. I’ve seen diagrams like the one you showed. And the mast on the Hunter legend has that fairlead but not the sheave below it. I’ll have to inspect the boom more to see if there is something in it.
my Ranger 33 has all reefing at the mast and has horns for hooking the cringle on.

 

[walmsleyc]

My boat didn't come with any reefing rigged, and given my boom ends were rivited, it likely never had the internal shuttles and didnt have the blocks on the mast (just the fairleads). I have some confidence that having two shuttle blocks in the boom would have over crowded the inside with my outhaul purchase system.

 

[Ringydingydo]

Thanks Walmsleyc.
Since you now use reefing horns at the gooseneck (I do to on my Ranger 33), how do you handle the main halyard? The Hunter is led aft. So do you release the halyard in the cockpit, then go forward and do the mast work, then return to cockpit and snug up the halyard?

On my Ranger with San Francisco Bay winds, when I release the halyard and hook the cringle on the hook, I have to tension the main halyard at the same time, else the sail comes off the horn.