I use bright red reef lines so I can see the suckers before hoisting. My main has nice little grommets along the foot for those reef lines, instead of tying them around the boom. It's little details like that which makes a well-built sail more expensive.
Jim Watts Paradigm Shift C&C 35 Mk III Victoria, BC On 7 February 2014 06:08, Andrew Burton <a.burton.sai...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > >
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