Thanks Don Guillette!

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Brian S

Brian S

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Nov 9, 2012
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Oday 192 Lake Nockamixon
I have now learned how to properly trim my main sail. I had to unlearn lots of stuff learned from bendy masts and powerful vangs from racing dinghies. After reading your book, and figuring how to translate the traveller concepts into vang sheeting on an end-boom mainsheet, I now think I've got it down.

Been out recently in some pretty windy, gusty conditions, and I've been able to keep all three leech telltails streaming on the main, and the boat seems to stay on her feet better as well. (Obviously because the top of the main is drawing but not over trimmed...)

My jib sheet fairleads are not moveable, and though this does bother me when the top of the jib is luffing a bit and I can't do anything about it, I'm still sailing my boat better and faster, sometimes keeping up with longer boats and once in a while outpacing them.

Makes my motto "sail it like you stole it" that much easier!

Brian
 
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dmc

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Jan 29, 2007
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Hunter Cheribini Lk. St. Clair MI
Brian S..............

Your right about Don's blog being a place to learn. Good work on the main. I have a solution for your unmovable fairlead, a barberhaul. I learned about them right here on Don's blog. On my '27 I have a rail, lots of positions to place a sheet block, but almost impossible to move under load. I made the barberhaul by placing a block where the jib clew would be if sheeted in tight, a 1 1/2" stainless ring around the jib sheet and a line, tied to the ring and lead through the block to the cockpit. I used them all summer this year and the were worth the effort. They great for quieting that jib luff.

Peace

dmc
 
Brian S

Brian S

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Nov 9, 2012
2,500
Oday 192 Lake Nockamixon
DMC, I'm not sure how this would work on my boat... On the O'day 192, there's a single stand up block mounted on the cabin top. This is the jib fairlead. I gather with your setup, you have a position along the normal jib sheet run, where you can pull the sheet down to change the pull angle on the clew? Sorta like a twing on a spinnaker sheet? I don't really think I have any place I could pull from to do that. In which case, I'd do just as well to put a piece of pin track on the cabin top, and move the fairlead block forward and backward... I figure if I'm going to do that, I might as well save up and get a 135% genoa on a Schaefer Snap-Furl, and run track down the side deck...

Thanks!
Brian
 
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Winkfish

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Jul 28, 2010
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Boston Whaler Montauk New Orleans
dmc said:
Your right about Don's blog being a place to learn. Good work on the main. I have a solution for your unmovable fairlead, a barberhaul. I learned about them right here on Don's blog. On my '27 I have a rail, lots of positions to place a sheet block, but almost impossible to move under load. I made the barberhaul by placing a block where the jib clew would be if sheeted in tight, a 1 1/2" stainless ring around the jib sheet and a line, tied to the ring and lead through the block to the cockpit. I used them all summer this year and the were worth the effort. They great for quieting that jib luff.

Peace

dmc
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Late to this thread. DMC, how do you tack with the barberhaul hooked up?
 
Joe

Joe

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Jun 1, 2004
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Catalina 27 Mission Bay, San Diego
Winkfish said:
Late to this thread. DMC, how do you tack with the barberhaul hooked up?
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the sheet would run through the barber hauler the same as it does the lead block..... you can release the barber hauler to allow the sheet to run straighter, if you choose, but the sheet is still threaded through the device's block... or ring in DMC's case.
 
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