Does anyone have a picture of how their mainsail tack is attach to the goosneck? Mine is not attached and there seems to be no shackle or other device that is the apparant choice to attach it with. There is a choice of three holes on the gooseneck to attack to, but I'm not sure which is correct or what to attach it with. Thanks! Dustin Patrick
mainsail rigging question
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Fastpin
My mainsail tack is fastened with a "Fastpin" which slips thru the top aft holeand the ring (or gromet) of the mainsail tack. It is held inplace by a springloaded stainles-steel ball captured within the outer end of the pin which retracts when you push the pin thru the tack brackets. Try West Marine; you will need the diameter and working length, which would typically be the outside width of the tack fitting plus about 1/8". Sorry I don't have a picture. Look at another nearby Hunter Mainsail on it's boom.
My mainsail tack is fastened with a "Fastpin" which slips thru the top aft holeand the ring (or gromet) of the mainsail tack. It is held inplace by a springloaded stainles-steel ball captured within the outer end of the pin which retracts when you push the pin thru the tack brackets. Try West Marine; you will need the diameter and working length, which would typically be the outside width of the tack fitting plus about 1/8". Sorry I don't have a picture. Look at another nearby Hunter Mainsail on it's boom.
Three holes
See if this helps. Check your mainsail leech clew area and see how many cringles (holes to landlubbers) there are in that corner of the sail. The one nearest the foot edge is the clew. If there is another one very close and there is some "funny" sail reinforcement running forward it may be that you have a flattining reef cringle. Any cringles firther up would be regular reef cringles. Now to the luff. The lowest cringle is the tack. The next one up "should" be a flatting reef cringle and the third is the cunningham. All higher cringles would be regular reef cringles. OBTW a flatting reef is used to take the "baggyness" (camber for the more salty) out of the sail for depowering it during rising winds. Bill Roosa
See if this helps. Check your mainsail leech clew area and see how many cringles (holes to landlubbers) there are in that corner of the sail. The one nearest the foot edge is the clew. If there is another one very close and there is some "funny" sail reinforcement running forward it may be that you have a flattining reef cringle. Any cringles firther up would be regular reef cringles. Now to the luff. The lowest cringle is the tack. The next one up "should" be a flatting reef cringle and the third is the cunningham. All higher cringles would be regular reef cringles. OBTW a flatting reef is used to take the "baggyness" (camber for the more salty) out of the sail for depowering it during rising winds. Bill Roosa
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