These are guarantied to be stupid questions, but I'm a 1st time sailboat owner with no IRL people to ask.. I believe I figured it out, but wanted to see if I'm making some mistakes in how I set up the mainsheet on my recently acquired boat. I got it on the water, but not been able to raise the sails yet. Possibly this weekend. There's been a myriad of little things I've fixed that it didn't quite seem like the PO knew what he was doing (and if I notice you know it's stupid..).
The boat has mid-ish boom sheeting. And there is a U-shaped ring (forget the name) near the mast, I assume for vang attachment?
- It came with two sets of lines/blocks things. So I'm thinking sheet, and boom vang. Does it matter which is what? See photos. It does look like solid blue was used as mainsheet. The other was buried under a bench, unfortunately don't have a better photo.
- Solid blue is attached with carabiners. Works, but doesn't seem quite right to me.. Should I replace with shackles, or does it not matter? (Had a "WTF?!" when I saw the price of snap shackles..) The other at least came with shackles
- There's a block on the boom, just aft of the mainsheet attachment point. Seen in the photo of solid blue. Any idea what this could be for? I'll have to investigate this further once i get the sail set up.
Sorry for all the questions. Thanks!
The boat has mid-ish boom sheeting. And there is a U-shaped ring (forget the name) near the mast, I assume for vang attachment?
- It came with two sets of lines/blocks things. So I'm thinking sheet, and boom vang. Does it matter which is what? See photos. It does look like solid blue was used as mainsheet. The other was buried under a bench, unfortunately don't have a better photo.
- Solid blue is attached with carabiners. Works, but doesn't seem quite right to me.. Should I replace with shackles, or does it not matter? (Had a "WTF?!" when I saw the price of snap shackles..) The other at least came with shackles
- There's a block on the boom, just aft of the mainsheet attachment point. Seen in the photo of solid blue. Any idea what this could be for? I'll have to investigate this further once i get the sail set up.
Sorry for all the questions. Thanks!