I am installing a deck traveller on my O'day 28 this weekend. It is a Garhauer unit complete with risers, traveler, traveler track, boom bales blocks and a thing called a dodger kit. This dodger kit guides the main sheet under the dodger along the deck to a set of port and starboard cam cleats. If anyone out there has installed a similar system on their boat recently and can provide pics I'd appreciate it if they could post the photos on this web site. Any help at all will be appreciated if you want to simply describe the installation in writing. Mike
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got 'er done!
Moved the traveler off the bridge deck last weekend with great success. Looks and works great! I will of course respond to all requests for help with a similar problem with the same amount of help I received. Regards, Mike
Moved the traveler off the bridge deck last weekend with great success. Looks and works great! I will of course respond to all requests for help with a similar problem with the same amount of help I received. Regards, Mike
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"If anyone out there has installed a similar system on their boat" I read your post, saw the qualifier above, and found I didn't fit. Maybe that's what happened with the other 131 views you've had. On the other hand, you've now had that experience, so there's at least on out here now. Unless, of course, you're REALLY adopting the attitude you appear to be. Regards
"If anyone out there has installed a similar system on their boat" I read your post, saw the qualifier above, and found I didn't fit. Maybe that's what happened with the other 131 views you've had. On the other hand, you've now had that experience, so there's at least on out here now. Unless, of course, you're REALLY adopting the attitude you appear to be. Regards
Come On Mike
I guess you forgot that I gave you the measurements and where to place your blocks. Did you also want me to install it for you.
I guess you forgot that I gave you the measurements and where to place your blocks. Did you also want me to install it for you.
So Mike where did you go?
Mike, not to mention giving you the web site on were to purchase the traveler.
Mike, not to mention giving you the web site on were to purchase the traveler.
Hey Joe
Joe: You did indeed help with the descriptions of where to locate the blocks on the boom and your lead to Garhauer panned out great. I am very grateful for the help you gave and I used the distances between the blocks as a good guide to my own installation. Maybe I need to tone down the "attitude" after all I did get a lot of views. I guess not too many folks need to move their travelers as you and I did. Any way everything went OK and I leave Saturday for the North Channel with a useable full enclosure. Mike
Joe: You did indeed help with the descriptions of where to locate the blocks on the boom and your lead to Garhauer panned out great. I am very grateful for the help you gave and I used the distances between the blocks as a good guide to my own installation. Maybe I need to tone down the "attitude" after all I did get a lot of views. I guess not too many folks need to move their travelers as you and I did. Any way everything went OK and I leave Saturday for the North Channel with a useable full enclosure. Mike
Mike, Just had to bust you
You will love the way it works. Did you also run all lines aft? I did and love it. The boat handles so easy. I was out in some real heavy wind and with the slab reefing and all lines aft it was a real pleasure to sail in 25+ knots and 4' seas. Man, before I did this mod would have been scrambling on the cabin top and hanging on, for dear life. Good luck and enjoy it.
You will love the way it works. Did you also run all lines aft? I did and love it. The boat handles so easy. I was out in some real heavy wind and with the slab reefing and all lines aft it was a real pleasure to sail in 25+ knots and 4' seas. Man, before I did this mod would have been scrambling on the cabin top and hanging on,
for dear life. Good luck and enjoy it.Joe again
Joe: Yes I did run the lines under the dodger. Garhauer has what they call a "dodger kit". It is a couple of pulleys at the end of the traveler which directs the control line aft and down. Another block on the deck directs the line along the deck under the dodger edge and to a cam cleat or rope clutch. As you say it works great. I don't have cockpit controlled reefing and I have to go on deck to raise the main. One day I'll add that stuff to the cockpit lines. In fact the deck organizer I bought from Garhauer is a double so all I will need to do is add turning block at the mast base, get a longer halyard, add a winch under the dodger and I'll be all set for a main halyard raising in the cockpit. Regards, Mike
Joe: Yes I did run the lines under the dodger. Garhauer has what they call a "dodger kit". It is a couple of pulleys at the end of the traveler which directs the control line aft and down. Another block on the deck directs the line along the deck under the dodger edge and to a cam cleat or rope clutch. As you say it works great. I don't have cockpit controlled reefing and I have to go on deck to raise the main. One day I'll add that stuff to the cockpit lines. In fact the deck organizer I bought from Garhauer is a double so all I will need to do is add turning block at the mast base, get a longer halyard, add a winch under the dodger and I'll be all set for a main halyard raising in the cockpit. Regards, Mike
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