I can’t comment on your routings because I’m told I don’t have permission to access the Google Drive. But I do have a comment based on my experience.
I tend to agree with you that the Cunningham is pretty much a set-it-and-forget-it sail control. Except when racing, when you may want to tension and ease going upwind & downwind to add power to the main, I tend to set it for the wind conditions when I first raise the main and then just leave it alone. That said, I still have it led aft to a cam cleat on the cabin top next to the winch for the main halyard so it can be adjusted when the sail is raised. The vang, however, is a control that you will adjust pretty frequently as wind conditions change. And the vang is essential for sailing off the wind – particularly in lighter air. When reaching or running without a vang the main sheet will let the boom rise and twist off the sail – thus spilling air from the top. Useful in heavy air (when you should ease the vang) but a real loss of power in light to moderate air. So you won’t really be able to use the vang as a preventer. I’d suggest getting a length of 3/8 or 7/16 line that you can tie to a bail on the mast and the toe rail. Or you can buy someone’s cast off soft vang or 4:1 mainsheet on EBay for chump change and keep it for a preventer. Which is what I did for a preventer for my 38. Rick Brass Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Means via CnC-List Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 2:39 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Andrew Means <andrew.cnc...@gmail.com> Subject: Stus-List Running Rigging Diagram 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/open?id=0B3H_qPPkESLKcHpHZVJhVzQ1TDQ <https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B3H_qPPkESLKbjNNaXpfc2NBdUE> 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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