Pretty much simultaneous, Joel. are we good or what! Andy C&C 40 Peregrine
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Joel Aronson <joel.aron...@gmail.com> wrote: > One piece of free advice - never use white sail ties to reef. They are > easy to overlook when shaking out a reef. > FWIW. (Need to but some blue ones now) > > Joel > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:49 AM, dwight <dwight...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Agree with the Lee >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Lee >> Youngblood >> Sent: February 6, 2014 11:54 PM >> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com >> Subject: Stus-List Reeflines "make it look pretty" >> >> Reeflines are a clever sail-makers trick. You'll >> want those - it's traditional right? >> >> If you tie them around the boom, you are sure to >> rip them out of the sail and split your main! >> Buy another main, and ask for a loose footed >> main. if you have to tie them, only loosely tie >> them around the sail - NOT THE BOOM! >> >> Sorry, my sailmaker friends my not like this post, but they know me. . . >> >> 2 cents, Lee >> >> >> >> >John; >> > >> >On my 38, the distance from the tack cringle to >> >the outhaul cringle of the first reef is about >> >11 1Ž2 feet. My first reef is somewhere between >> >4 and 5 feet above the loose foot of the sail, >> >and amounts to just under 25% of the area of the >> >main. So there is a lot of canvas that can belly >> >out in the wind and add to the draft of the >> >sail. >> > >> >If its blowing hard enough for me to reef the >> >main - say something around 18-20 knots true - I >> >want to get the sail as flat as possible. So >> >I've never considered the reef lines tied around >> >the boom to be a cosmetic thing. >> > >> >Rick Brass >> > >> >From: CnC-List >> >[mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf >> >Of j...@svpaws.net >> >Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 7:20 PM >> >To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com >> >Subject: Re: Stus-List Re- heaving to >> > >> ><reef lines tied around the boom> >> > >> >I've never done that and consider it more a >> >"make it look pretty" thing. You're only >> >talking about a few feet of sail controlled by >> >the original outhaul and the new outhaul at the >> >reef point. It's pretty well sandwiched in >> >there. Same for the second reef although that >> >does get a bit sloppy. >> > >> >> >> -- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > -- Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Ave Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ phone +401 965 5260
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