Ultimately, to answer your question, IMO the Cunningham is a valuable addition.
For me adjusting halyard tension is more difficult than adjusting Cunningham. My Cunningham is a 5 to 1 fiddle block arrangement which pulls down on a pennant that passes through the luff cringle (2 to 1) resulting in a compounded 10 to 1 purchase system. With my tides marine strong track system I can nearly raise the mainsail bare handed. In a hurry I can close the jammer and yank on the Cunningham and have a good luff tension. Given a little more time, a quick crank on a winch and the sail is set. On upwind runs when trying to move the draft forward I can harden up on the cunningham and the outhaul. If I need to further flatten the sail or keep the mast from pumping I haul on the baby stay. As I round the mark for the down wind run I release the cunningham to move the draft back. Release the outhaul to increase the draft overall and easy the babystay as long as there is no pumping or rough chop. Long story short - all jammers, all hand tightened, none of that requires a winch... Or anybody getting out of the cockpit. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On May 17, 2017 9:43 PM, "Dave S via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Both depower the main.... Does the adjustable baby stay (mast bend) make > the Cunningham (luff tension) redundant? > I have an adjustable baby stay, is adding a Cunningham a waste of time? > > Thanks , Dave > 33-2 > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > > This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you > wish to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: > https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > All Contributions are greatly appreciated! >
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