Hi Andrew,

I think you should tell that novice crew member, "Release that black & yellow line going to the top of the sail, ease the mainsheet and then, Wrap that red line three times clockwise around that winch and crank until I tell you to stop." <VBG>

Seriously though, you could put them on the wheel and get it done right then take back the helm. If short of experience I often give the helm to someone who can follow directions and I do the work. In this manner I have full control of the boat. Not really suitable for racing of course as speed will suffer but at least things are more in control.

Whatever you do, please have a nice discussion afterwards and tell them the proper names for the things we do on our yachts.

        Cheers, Russ
        Sweet mk-1 35

At 11:38 PM 11/04/2016, you wrote:
Hi all -

Thanks in part to the great advice everybody gave on <http://cnc-list.com/pipermail/cnc-list_cnc-list.com/2016-March/083340.html>this thread I think I’ve got a solution for the running rigging on S.V. Safari.

See here for my entirely too detailed diagram and description:
<https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B3H_qPPkESLKbjNNaXpfc2NBdUE>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3H_qPPkESLKcHpHZVJhVzQ1TDQ

Ideally I’d like to do 2B, even though everybody decries single-line reefing I think it really is best for the kinds of sailing we do and the crews we have, as very often I’m the only one who knows how to sail. Being able to say to a novice crew member:

“Wrap that red line three times clockwise around that winch and crank until I tell you to stop.”

is so much simpler than asking somebody to climb on deck and wrestle the dog bone over the reef hook (“wh- what?”), or trying to shout instructions while I’m on deck trying to wrestle the dog bone over the reef hook.

In these diagrams I’ve led the outhaul aft and left the vang & cunningham up at the mast (although there are fairleads installed for the spinnaker downhaul on the starboard side of the cabin). The rationale with keeping the vang at the mast is that if we attach it with a snap shackle we can remove it and use it as a preventer by attaching it to the toe rail when running wing & wing. cunningham and vang are also more performance-oriented controls, and we’ll have a more experienced crew when we race.

Well, what do does everybody think?

Andrew

PS - If anybody else is savvy with Adobe Illustrator and wants to use this to map out their own running rigging adjustments let me know and I’ll be happy to send it over.

--
Andrew Means
S.V. Safari - 1977 C&C 34 Mk I
Seattle, WA
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