I tried this single line approach last spring during a moment of contemplation and "seemed like a good idea at the time" moment. The results were like this. A 10 mile down wind race with ever increasing winds. While enjoying the ride we didn't notice how much the wind had come up. When we rounded the mark to come back we realized that we were well beyond the sails we had set and attempted to reef. I was excited to try out the new reefing setup and as one crew dropped the sail another winched in the single line. There was far too much friction on the cringle and all I achieved was pulling the tack down to the boom. The Leech flogged uncontrollably and no amount of pulling would correct the problem. I realized too late that the only solution would be re-stringing the reefing lines and with the boat now bouncing wildly in 4 foot steep swells and a novice crew looking very nervous and green, we just dropped the whole thing to the deck, lashed it tight and puttered home with the iron genny. I hate doing that because that little 1GM10 Yanmar is really underpowered against 30 knots of headwind. I may try again but this time ill put a block on the cringle. Cheers
Brent Driedger 27-5 s/v Wild Rover Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on the MTS High Speed Mobility Network -----Original Message----- From: "Gary Nylander" <gnylan...@atlanticbb.net> Sender: "CnC-List" <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 16:15:51 To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Reply-To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Main Reefing System _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
