I see midboom sheeting!
Who's the dick that put this spinnaker clete up here?! Oh wait, this is my boat...
;^)
Well, when everyone saw the picture at the party at Kirk's house tonight, the overwhelming response to the photo was . . .
Arrggghhhh!!!
BTW, Enrique and Jorge brought some fine premium rum from P.R. and the photos for Friday will more than likely be blurry.
Interesting setup, I guess the advantage would be that the crew no longer has to hand the mainsheet to the helm when tacking.
Hey just shows you what warming up on a F16 can do for you <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />. Good result Greg.
Amazing where Macca turns up, some Ozzies will sail anything to stay away from home <img src="<>/crazy.gif" alt="crazy" title="crazy" height="15" width="15" />.
Its a much better sheeting angle for the crew when trapped out going upwind as well. Gives the crew a lot more leverage to grind and stuff.
Talked to JW about it yesterday, overall he likes it. It's a bit of a hassle in the medium breeze when having to move the sheet around the shroud.
As indicated in a previous post he does carry the mainsheet through the tack. The skipper only get's the sheet at the mark roundings.
Krantz developed a sheet system that cleats at both ends, so all the crew has to do is cleat it off at the boom, and the skipper can unclear his at the back at the traditional spot and carry on. I donno if he's got it on the Layline/zhik boat or not.
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Cant find any closeup pics of the setup but it looks like there's no cleat.
In this pic you see it coming through a ratchet on the tramp:
http://www.thebeachcats.com/gallery...
Correct, there is no cleat.
ok that system is different than what I had in mind <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />
My a-cat was setup to go from mid-boom to the trampoline but I really didn't like it. I love the mid-boom (I can sheet hard and it doesn't try to pull me to the back of the boat) but when it went to the trampoline the response was really mushy because of the give in the trampoline. Why put a $120 high-tech non-stretchy mainsheet on if you're going to block it through the middle of a trampoline?