My first reaction was damn, that's a tall mast. Stepping the stick & getting all the standing rigging went fine, I set the spreader rake at 1 1/5", the shrouds just so the mast didn't wobble laterally, & the diamonds so a hard push made them touch at 12". When test hoisting the rags I ran into a few glitches. One manual shows two different systems for the jib, (step 60)mine has the bullet block with becket attached to jib halyard, but doesn't have a have a cheek block near the jam cleat,(that would give a 3:1 purchase). It only has the strap eye & jam cleat, so I am assuming that it was originally set up with just a bullet block on the end of the halyard, & set up is to tie line from strap eye, up through bullet block & down through jam cleat,(2:1).
When hoisting the main,(step 59, also seems to show 2 different systems). I seem to have the second system, as there is a cheek block & strap eye near the bottom of the mast, but I am missing the "S" hook with attached V jam block.
I ghetto rigged it by using a long bowline tied through the sail grommet, then down around cheek block, back up through sail grommet, down & tied off to strap eye.
I didn't seem to be able to pull all the wrinkles out of the bolt rope area, but it worked & we sailed for a couple of hours in very light winds,appx 5 mph. This was great to test the rudders, try tacking & gybing & generally feel the boat out. In these light winds tacking was pretty easy, I just had to be gentle on the stick, & give it time to come about. It certainly doesn't pivot like the Invitation, but at one point the wind picked up to around 10 mph, & the speed was impressive. I want to tip it over & get some working knowledge of my righting system before I go out in any wind over 10 mph.
Can those with knowledge of boomless rigs give me any pointers on how I should rig, with what I have? Should I buy an "S" hook & block with V jam, or should I attach the block with becket(currently on the jib)to the tack eye on main, & rig the line from becket, down around cheek block, back up & around block with S hook, then down & tie off,(or rivet another jam cleat on to mast) (Directions in the manual with the Japanese annotations seem different), though they do specifically mention the 5.7 at step 32.19 I believe the picture they refer to is a typo, & should be picture 34a, not 43a as the manual states.
Attached is a picture of my mast fittings, there are no fittings on the right hand side. Also I originally thought the line with hook & shackle was for a righting bag. Could the previous owner have shackled the block with cam cleat tot he sail, & placed the hook through the strap eye? It doesn't look like a strong enough hook for the job.
PS I only have one jam cleat on the mast, I would have to tie off the main sail tension line, or get a block with built in V jam, like I have on the vang of my Invitation. I think one would want the main tension to be easily adjustable, no? I have the old original sails, so I don't think they can handle more than a 4:1 downhaul.
edited by: Edchris177, Jun 15, 2010 - 01:13 PM
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, I called it a grommet cause that's what Nacra called it, & I'd forgotten that cringle word)attached to the block. Using the ghetto 2:1 I rigged up, I can't get the wrinkles out of the bottom of the sail, though some of that might be just the way the original sail sets. If I got a longer line I could also run it through the cringle twice, but the jamb cleat makes for easier adjustment.