Touche' has a multipurpose line we use as an outboard sheet for the genoa and as a preventer. It's just a line with a snap shackle on one end.
Our racing main is loose footed. We just wrap the line around the boom 2/3, 3/4 or so of the way out, take it to a snatch block on the toe rail then back to a free winch somewhere. We keep the line taut using the winch and mainsheet. For the outboard sheet, we clip the snap shackle to the soft shackle on the genoa clew, take the line to a snatch block on the toe rail and aft to the secondary winch. Our rule is when the regular jibsheet starts bending over the lifeline, we switch to the outboard sheet. Our boats like to "breathe". Open the slot and gain a fraction of a knot. There shouldn't be a lot of pressure on the line on either situation. In the case of the preventer, you shouldn't allow the wind to get strongly on the forward side of the main. That's up to the driver. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:44 AM David Knecht via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > I have been thinking aobut rigging a preventer on my boat so re-read this > old discussion of how people rig them. End boom attachment sounds > preferable, but does that have to run outside the shrouds? If so, then you > would have to rig it before letting the main out while you can stlill get > to the end of the boom. Then, how do you gybe when you want to? > > > >
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