You will want to make sure that when you honk down on the clew you don't pull the tack back. In other words, you'll have to set up your Cunningham to pull forward as well as down or you'll be pulling the bolt rope off the sail slides. As I noted in an earlier post, I have moved everything up to the mast. I find reeling is easier there as long as Otto is driving. I just drop the halyard, hook on the tack ring to the horn at the gooseneck, then take up on the clew. I turn away from the breeze if I am afraid of getting wet and I have sea room. It is pretty easy and only takes a minute or two. Remember: The best time to reef is when you first think about it.
Andy C&C 40 Peregrine Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 On Jan 2, 2014, at 14:38, David Knecht <davidakne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have three reef points on my main, and I want to set things up to make it > easier to reef when the weather turns nasty (a fairly frequent occurrence > here). I have two reefing lines led to the cockpit from the leech so that > part is easy to do with the autopilot on. I am thinking to set things up so > that I don’t have to leave the cockpit any more often than necessary and so > the luff is the trickier one. What I played with last summer was attaching > the Cunningham to the reefing ring on the sail with a block on a snap > shackle. It acted as a Cunningham normally, but when I needed to reef, I > could just pull down the Cunningham instead of hooking the ring on the boom > horns. This would mimic a double line reefing system without having to rig > an extra line. If I needed a second reef, I could move the snap > shackle/blockt to the next reefing ring quickly. Anyone see a reason for not > doing this? I can’t see that the cunningham and reef line can’t be dual > purpose. My concern is whether you can get enough tension on the Cunniingham > to get the luff tight when you crank on the halyard without putting too much > force on the blocks that the Cunningham runs through on the deck. Dave > > > David Knecht > Aries > 1990 C&C 34+ > New London, CT > > <pastedGraphic.tiff> > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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