The system David described below is what we have been using for our
mainsheet.  Our traveller is in the cockpit on the bridgedeck behind the
companionway.  It is double ended with one end running to the rope clutches
and winch on the cabintop.  The other end goes to a 6:1 at the traveller.
 It works for us.

The boat seems to have been built with a double ended system but with one
end terminating in a fine tune system like the one Michael Clow shows
above, except the fine tune blocks and line were hidden inside the boom.
 It was changed to the system we have now by a previous owner.

Ken H.


On 2 October 2013 21:58, David Knecht <davidakne...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Update on my mainsheet rig.  I have altered the arrangement to something I
> think is dramatically better.  I found that the 6:1 was not sufficient in
> higher winds, which we have had alot of lately (not complaining). Not only
> could I not sheet in tight enough, I could not release it from the load on
> the cam.   I thought I could run the sheet to a coachtop winch to increase
> power when needed, but the downward angle does not work as the sheet rides
> up on the winch.  The solution was simple: a hybrid of the new triple and
> the old system.   I re-rigged the old blocks so that I now have a double
> ended arrangement.  I don't have the end stopped at the becket on the
> triple.  I now have the line running 6:1 through the triple/cam on the
> traveller, then forward along the boom to the block on the mast, down to
> the deck and back to the clutch as it used to be.  In lighter winds, I use
> the cam on the 6:1 triple block to control.  In heavier winds I use the
> clutch end and run it to one of the winches on the coachroof.  Worked great
> last weekend. The only problem is that the 50' mainsheet I bought is not
> really long enough.  Dave
>
>
>
>  David Knecht
> Aries
> 1990 C&C 34+
> New London, CT
>
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