So many sheaves, so few lines

[Bill]

Hi all... let me see if I've got this right. My h22 has kenyon spars, and the boom has 2 sheaves at the aft end. Since the boat was rigged a little screwy when I got her, my guess is that one is for a jiffy reef line and the other for the topping lift to make it adjustable. My topping lift is actually a vinyl covered wire cable with a thimble in the end... how does one attach the line in the boom to this? Also, has anyone attempted a true one line reefing setup including the luff cringle? I was thinking that since my roller genoa does away with a jib halyard, I could run a line as follows- boom end-leech cringle-sheave in boom end-block on port side of mast-luff cringle-block on starboard side of mast-deck organizer-halyard clutch. Any thoughts? My boat is in Nantucket Sound, and things can begin to honk out of the SW pretty quick. To be able to reef from the cockpit singlehanded would be sweeeeet...Thanks all for input here and elsewhere... boat's still floating after a month- guess I might as well name her.

 

[Dean Vermeire]

Topping Lift

Having not had the benefit of the previous owner having a clue what to do, I have mine rigged just as you described. I have the line from the boom run up to the topping lift cable and tied with a bowline. It seems to work pretty well.I haven't tried rigging a single-line reefing configuration... I live in Kansas. We don't reef.

 

[Paul Westcott]

Toping lift

On my boat the topping lift has a small three part block and tackle between a ring in the center of the boom end and the thimble in the wire lift. Reefing lines go from the forward stbd cam cleat at the gooseneck down the inside of the boom, up the stbd sheave at the boom end, up to the lower leech reef cringle, back down to the boom end where it ends on a pad eye. The upper reef cringle is rigged the same way on the port side. Hooks are on the boom near the gooseneck for the tack cringles. I find I can reef quickly by lowering the main halyard to a mark on the halyard, hook the tack cringle and yank on the appropriate leech reefing line, then harden up the halyard. On my boat most of the lines already come back to the cockpit so adding two reefing lines would really add to the clutter already there.