Single point main
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Vang Sheeting
Check out "Vang Sheeting" online. I don't know any sites offhand but they should be easy to find.
Check out "Vang Sheeting" online. I don't know any sites offhand but they should be easy to find.
Kevin: What size boat do you sail? The more sail trim controls you have the easier it is to trim your mainsail. As the boats progress upwards in size, the more important these controls become. One of the boats I owned was a Catalina 25 and the traveler was so small it was next to useless. If you don't have a traveler, you have to make do with what you do have, which is the mainsheet and probably a boom vang but neither is a substitute for the traveler.
Here is my big gripe.....
....with the boat builders, Hunter in particular. I've added all the the sail controls that the boat should have come with in the first place and upgraded the power ratio on many more. I read discussions about furling mains that have no cunningham. No ability to bend the mast and flatten the main when the wind pipes up. No backstay adjuster to tighten the headstay. Double braid dacron halyards that stretch too much. The list goes on and on..... INMHO either you build a boat to sail properly or don't build it.
....with the boat builders, Hunter in particular. I've added all the the sail controls that the boat should have come with in the first place and upgraded the power ratio on many more. I read discussions about furling mains that have no cunningham. No ability to bend the mast and flatten the main when the wind pipes up. No backstay adjuster to tighten the headstay. Double braid dacron halyards that stretch too much. The list goes on and on..... INMHO either you build a boat to sail properly or don't build it.
I have a Hunter 260
which I bought last fall. In my youth I sailed an International 110, as well as other one designs and had numerous jib, main and mast controls. Now I have a single point jib lead, a vang which does not lead to cockpit and a mainsheet which is hard to get into and out of its cam cleat and a mast that sits there. I like to think of my 260 as a comfortable one design racer rather than a flower pot so can it all you nayesayers. I am having the local Doyle sail loft in Traverse City put in a cunningham, what else might I do? Thank you Kevin
which I bought last fall. In my youth I sailed an International 110, as well as other one designs and had numerous jib, main and mast controls. Now I have a single point jib lead, a vang which does not lead to cockpit and a mainsheet which is hard to get into and out of its cam cleat and a mast that sits there. I like to think of my 260 as a comfortable one design racer rather than a flower pot so can it all you nayesayers. I am having the local Doyle sail loft in Traverse City put in a cunningham, what else might I do? Thank you Kevin
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I put a rigid vang on my 260 and ran the line back to the cockpit. Now I actually use it to trim the main. Also installed a second reef point in between the original reef point and full sail and ran reefing lines back to the cockpit. What a difference! no more reefing on the cabin roof, waiting to fall overboard with a crew that doesn't know jack, or no crew at all, you can reef with the sail still powered up, just ease off the halyard and pull on the line. With the second reef point, you dont even have much problem with tying off the excess sail.
I put a rigid vang on my 260 and ran the line back to the cockpit. Now I actually use it to trim the main. Also installed a second reef point in between the original reef point and full sail and ran reefing lines back to the cockpit. What a difference! no more reefing on the cabin roof, waiting to fall overboard with a crew that doesn't know jack, or no crew at all, you can reef with the sail still powered up, just ease off the halyard and pull on the line. With the second reef point, you dont even have much problem with tying off the excess sail.
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