Mark your halyard with a Sharpie so you know how far to ease the halyard. I also use the tack ring. The lines for the clew come back to the cabin top clutch/winches. Ease the halyard, hook the ring on the horn, tension the halyard and the clew. In the Bay I only have 1 reefing line rigged for the clew; offshore I will rig the second.
Joel 35/3 Annapolis On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Andrew Burton <a.burton.sai...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > -- Joel 301 541 8551
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