Or Schaefer.com
I agree with Ted-- the Harken catalogue has a very nice section in back showing variations of running rigging applications. I was not thoroughly happy with what they showed for slab reefing, although their method is perfectly good in theory. I prefer what Schaefer shows for single-line reefing. One line goes from a pad eye on the side of the boom up through the reef cringle and back through a cheek block on the other side of the boom, then goes forward to another cheek block, up through the cringle at the front, and down to a cleat. It's left loose while sailing without a reef. To reef, slack the halyard, take up on the reef line, reeve your sail stops through the intermediate cringles and bring up the halyard against it when done. As long as the cheek block in back is located correctly (bisecting the angle of pull like a new outhaul) it will work fine. I took off a lot of hardware from the side of my boom to have it this simple-- I'll never go back to the cheek-block-on-track mess again. JC
