On my C&C 32 with a traveler in front of the companion way we have installed a 
main sheet fine tuner horizontally along the boom.  We could probably clean it 
up a bit but it works great.

 

You can check it out at:  
http://desiresailing.org/CnC32MainSheetModification.pdf

 

Michael Clow

 

From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of 
cenel...@aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 9:32 AM
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com; kenhea...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List 6 part mainsheet and also traveller location

 

I recently changed my mainsheet purchase to this arrangement with my traveller 
located just in front of the binnacle spanning the seats.

 

Originally the factory had a 6:1 coarse on the sheet with a an 8:1 'doubler' 
within the boom which I now use for the outhaul.

 

Charlie Nelson

Water Phantom

C&C 36 XL/kcb

cenel...@aol.com

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Casciato <rjcasci...@comcast.net>
To: kenheaton <kenhea...@gmail.com>; cnc-list <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 4, 2013 9:12 am
Subject: Re: Stus-List 6 part mainsheet and also traveller location

Ken:  I have the same arrangement on my 38MKII, but I added a 4:1 lighter 
system in the original line up to the becket of the 6:1 system.  You can find 
this outline in Harken’s catalogue in the mainsheet drawings.  My system 
alleviates the rope clutches and winch and allows easy trim and release since 
the final system is now 24:1.  I think I’m now at 3/8” line for the fine trim 
arrangement an 7/16” for the mainsheet system.

 

Pics available if interested………… no additional deck hardware required……….

 

Best

 

Ron C.

Impromptu

C&C 38MKIIC…. ‘77

 

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From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com 
<mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com?> ] On Behalf Of Ken Heaton
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 12:13 PM
To: cnc-list
Subject: Re: Stus-List 6 part mainsheet and also traveller location

 

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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