Staysail rigging 37 Hunter

[e Bryan Rucinski]

i need advice on the proper rigging for my stay sail for my 1984 Hunter 37 . i bought the boat 1 year ago and have the big stuff halyard, boom,sails).

I don't believe i have the right hardware . Can anyone out there send some photos/videos?

Also, once i get it rigged properly, i need to understand the proper operation. thx .. e Bryan

 

[fred1diver]

do you mean the head sail? is it on a furler or is it hanked on?
if hanked on, you attach the bottom fo the sail on the bow of the boat, you attach each hank on the fore stay, attach the halyard to the top of the sail, tie both sheets to the end of the sail, usually with a bowline knot.

 

[Jim Legere]

I'll try and find some pictures. My boat is not back in the water yet, so I will have to go through the 'archives'. Basically the staysail boom has a gooseneck that attaches to the inner forestay. The end of the boom is attached to a 3-part tackle that is running on the side-to-side track in front of the mast. The sheet feeds forward along the boom and down to the deck at the inner forestay. From there, it is run back to the cockpit. A picture would be worth a 1000 words...

 

[Johnb]

i need advice on the proper rigging for my stay sail for my 1984 Hunter 37 . i bought the boat 1 year ago and have the big stuff halyard, boom,sails).

I don't believe i have the right hardware . Can anyone out there send some photos/videos?

Also, once i get it rigged properly, i need to understand the proper operation. thx .. e Bryan

The first picture shows what is inside the boom of the staysail:
D is inserted into the boom at the bow end and connects the boom to the inner forestay. The line that comes out of it (C) is used to tension the clew of the staysail. The sheave at A is attached inside the boom and the sheave B is free to move inside the boom. From B the wire that comes out over a sheave at the stern end of the boom comes forward to attach to the clew of the sail.

There is a downhaul attached to the shackle at the bottom of D, this holds the front end of the boom down and opposes the force of the halyard pulling on the head of the sail.

The second picture shows the sheeting arrangement at the stern end of the boom. The sheet leaves the block and goes forward to the front end of the boom where it goes through a block, then down to the deck and ultimately back to the cockpit.

 

[Ed Schenck]

Here are a couple more views.
Just realized looking at the boom end that this was the original rigging. The sheet ran forward, down, over to the toerail and back along the rail just like the furler line on the other side. Most boats now have the blocks upside down with the sheet going to a block at the mast base, then through a deck organizer and back to the portside winch on the cabin roof. Maybe I can find another photo.

 

[Ed Schenck]

If you can zoom on this picture you might see the red sheet going through a block and then to the deck organizer.

 

[Johnb]

Here are a couple more views.
Most boats now have the blocks upside down with the sheet going to a block at the mast base, then through a deck organizer and back to the portside winch on the cabin roof. Maybe I can find another photo.

Ed, you have got me thinking. The pictures posted above by you are actually my boat.

There are two downsides to having that sheet come from the rear of the boom to the front, then as you say, wending its way along the toerail to the cockpit. One is a tendency to hang down from the boom and tangle, and the other is that in light winds there is so much friction in that whole path that slackening the sheet at the cockpit sometimes does nothing, the sail just stays where it is.

The problem I see having it go down to a deck mounted block at the stern end of the boom is that it will interact with the movement of the traveler.