Reefing foot hole

  • Thread starter Frank on the BonnieLynn - H260
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Frank on the BonnieLynn - H260

The outhaul line for my mainsail reef point: The line comes out or the boom, up to the foot of the mainsail reef point, runs through the hole, and down to the mast, tied about 3/4 of the way down the boom. My question: Why not just tie the line to the foot of the sail at the reef point? What's the advantage? Thanks for the education.
 
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Henry Scurlock

reefing leverage

My first thought would be that the two points provide a much tighter reef. Pulls the sail down AND back.
 
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Ray Bowles

If you tied the line to the foot of the sail only

then it would only pull back and not down, thereby inducing a very, very large belly in the sail and would defeat the ability to draw the sail down and tight to depower it. Ray s/v Speedy
 
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