New Self Tailing Winches

[LeeandRick]

The OPs boat is 26 feet. That is the focus.

Actually the focus was on clarifying a term and two older people who have grown weaker and have arthritic hands. We would have never changed to self tailing winches on a 45 year old monohull otherwise. The tail though idea seems nice since one can wrap the winch all the way through the gripper with no pressure on the sheet and then pull as much as the hands of the day feel. Then finish it off with a 30 winch instead of a 16. Racing days are over plus we have to wait until almost 20° through the wind for the genoa to clear the forward lower shroud (with a roller) before hauling in the sheet. If the genoa gets hauled in to quick on our little shoal draft 26 footer, the barn door rudder (3'X3') can stop the boat since the CE would be so far ahead of the CLR.

Thanks everyone. On a good hands day I will shoot a video of both methods and see the time difference.

 

[Hayden Watson]

The OPs boat is 26 feet. That is the focus...


...And it does not require crew on boats up to ~ high 30s. The turn is handled by the AP, you release the jib when it breaks and pull it across at the rate the turn allows. When you get it right, when the jib pops full the first moment it can and the boat is pulled around and accelerates, it's wonderful.

I do not disagree with anything that you just said, especially the last paragraph. That is exactly how I do the tacks on my C30 single-handed. It appears that the only thing we have disagreement on is that I do it using the tail-through ability of the ST winch and you do not. A perfect tack in one that I do not need to make more than 2-3 full turns on the 40-power winch after hand-hauling the sheet in. By using the tail-through, I do not loose that couple of seconds of time that it takes to get the extra wrap and lock into the jaws. I go directly from hand tailing to two-handed cranking.

 

[thinwater]

I do not disagree with anything that you just said, especially the last paragraph. That is exactly how I do the tacks on my C30 single-handed. It appears that the only thing we have disagreement on is that I do it using the tail-through ability of the ST winch and you do not. A perfect tack in one that I do not need to make more than 2-3 full turns on the 40-power winch after hand-hauling the sheet in. By using the tail-through, I do not loose that couple of seconds of time that it takes to get the extra wrap and lock into the jaws. I go directly from hand tailing to two-handed cranking.

Different boats, different long splices !