Questions on Jib Handling and Reefing

[treeman]

Hello:

This is my first season with an O'day 222. At this point, I've got 2 hours of sailing experience on it. As usual, questions keep arising.

1) My boat has Genoa tracks and cars installed on the sides of the cabin. On the first day out, I routed the sheets from the roller furling jib through these. Was that the right move? or should I run these straight back to the cabin. (outside the sidestays, of course) Follow up question: the pulleys in the cars are damaged. Do you think I can replace just the pulleys or will I need new cars?

2) I have no idea how to reef the mainsail. I'm guessing I should learn that really soon. I have already found some good pictures on the site, but was wondering if someone could give me a simple written process in the best sequence. I have Dwyer spars.

Thanks in advance.

-Dan

 

[treeman]

Photo of track/car

 

[Joe11688]

Hello:

This is my first season with an O'day 222. At this point, I've got 2 hours of sailing experience on it. As usual, questions keep arising.

1) My boat has Genoa tracks and cars installed on the sides of the cabin. On the first day out, I routed the sheets from the roller furling jib through these. Was that the right move? or should I run these straight back to the cabin. (outside the sidestays, of course) Follow up question: the pulleys in the cars are damaged. Do you think I can replace just the pulleys or will I need new cars?

2) I have no idea how to reef the mainsail. I'm guessing I should learn that really soon. I have already found some good pictures on the site, but was wondering if someone could give me a simple written process in the best sequence. I have Dwyer spars.

Thanks in advance.

-Dan

Dan,
My tracks and cars are Schaeffer which are similar to yours, but I have them mounted on my combings so I can't help you on the route to take with you sheets. You're going to have to experiment.
My spars are made by Z-Diffusion with internal halyards and the reefing system is different, so I can't help you there but if your boat has jiffy reefing, it's basically the same as my reefing except your boom control lines are mounted on the boom. Mine are inside the boom. Perhaps someone else can chime in on reefing Dwyer Spars.

I'm not sure if you can buy the cars that fit that track but what you could do is drill out the pins and remove the sheaves and replace them with new sheaves of the same size. You could use stainless steel axle bolts with lock nuts for pins. One of sheaves is getting bad and I'm eventually going to need to replace it. I may need to go this route myself.

 

[emergpa1]

Hello:

This is my first season with an O'day 222. At this point, I've got 2 hours of sailing experience on it. As usual, questions keep arising.

1) My boat has Genoa tracks and cars installed on the sides of the cabin. On the first day out, I routed the sheets from the roller furling jib through these. Was that the right move? or should I run these straight back to the cabin. (outside the sidestays, of course) Follow up question: the pulleys in the cars are damaged. Do you think I can replace just the pulleys or will I need new cars?

2) I have no idea how to reef the mainsail. I'm guessing I should learn that really soon. I have already found some good pictures on the site, but was wondering if someone could give me a simple written process in the best sequence. I have Dwyer spars.

Thanks in advance.

-Dan

Reefing will go something like this: loosen your halyard to let the main drop down just far enuff so that the reef grommets ( reef points) are just at the boom (the pole the bottom (foot) of your mainsail is attached too). Then tie the reef point on your mainsail that is farthest forward to the cleat on the bottom of the mast. You may have a hook or something, but what ever you have figure out how to secure it. Then take the line that should be tied to the ring reef point at the rear (leech) of the sail, run it back through a pulley (block) which should be attached the very back of your boom and then back forward along the boom and pull it tight then secure it to the cleat about halfway forward on the boom. See what you have done is tighten the foot of the sail. If there is no line in the rear reef point then you need to put one there and make it long enuff to go around that pulley at the aft most end of the boom and up to the cleat.
Now all you have to do is gather up the excess sail and tie a short line through those other two reef points in the middle of the sail to the boom. that just gathers up the excess so it doesn't flap. The forward and rear reef points set the sail tension. That's why you do them first.

 

[treeman]

Thanks. That makes sense. I'll start experimenting with that.

 

[ldube]

Reefing will go something like this: loosen your halyard to let the main drop down just far enuff so that the reef grommets ( reef points) are just at the boom (the pole the bottom (foot) of your mainsail is attached too). Then tie the reef point on your mainsail that is farthest forward to the cleat on the bottom of the mast. You may have a hook or something, but what ever you have figure out how to secure it. Then take the line that should be tied to the ring reef point at the rear (leech) of the sail, run it back through a pulley (block) which should be attached the very back of your boom and then back forward along the boom and pull it tight then secure it to the cleat about halfway forward on the boom. See what you have done is tighten the foot of the sail. If there is no line in the rear reef point then you need to put one there and make it long enuff to go around that pulley at the aft most end of the boom and up to the cleat.
Now all you have to do is gather up the excess sail and tie a short line through those other two reef points in the middle of the sail to the boom. that just gathers up the excess so it doesn't flap. The forward and rear reef points set the sail tension. That's why you do them first.

Thanks