Rudy. Thanks for all of this. Very helpful. In my question regarding
fastening the clutches, actually I was referring to the Powercleats
(I didn't know what they were called.) So, are those also through-bolted?
My mainsheet goes from the mid-boom traveler to a turning block
starboard of the mast and then back to a cabin-top winch. If I need
the winch for anything else (like raising the main) I have to detach
the mainsheet and tie it off on a nearby cleat, or just let the boom
swing free until I finish with the halyard. That's bothersome. So I'm
thinking of installing a clutch (or maybe a Powercleat?) to secure
the mainsheet and free up the winch, and I was just wondering how
much damage I need to do to the cabin top in order to do so. Thanks again.
Jeff
At 02:56 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
Jeffrey,
Questions! I'll try to answer accurately. By the clutches I take
you mean the double clutch a couple of feet or so forward of the
winch, not the Powercleats in the aftmost portside of the cabin
trunk. The double clutch is throughbolted with oversized washers,
fender washers I believe they are called. A backing plate would
have been better, but the fender washers and big panheaded bolts
are likely more than adequate.
The starboardmost clutch of the double (on the portside that we are
talking about) carries the jib halyard. The next portside clutch
space is empty.
I had thought to fill that space with the pole downhaul ). Then I
learned about the line -controlled snap cleats (called Powercleats
by the manufacturer) and saw that I could put two of them side by
side, where you see them. That way I could use one for the pole
lift and the other for the downhaul and could use a mnemonic for new
crew: "the right one raises, the left one lowers the pole"; and I
could emphasize that they were always used together in harmony.
So I abandoned one part of the double clutch . Works good for me, too.
None of this is used for sheets: main halyard and boom lift to
starboard, jib halyard and blank to port.
Phoenix has an endboom mainsheet and traveler.
Jib sheets go conventionally to blocks on the rail and thence to the
main winches on either side of the cockpit. Spin sheets go to
oversized Harken ratchet blocks near the transom break
I'm not sure how to configure your rig, but it doesn't seem like an
insuperable task.
Rudy B.
Jeffery L. Sheler wrote:
Rudy. Your two clutches on the port side: How are they attached? Do
you have them bolted from the inside of the cabin with washers
and/or a backing plate? Or are they just screwed on since the load
is horizontal rather than vertical? What lines are they holding?
Also, is your traveler mid-boom? If so, where/how do you secure the
mainsheet? I have a mid-boom traveler and as currently configured
(no clutch) I use a self-tailing winch to starboard to hold the
sheet. It's not real convenient and I'd like to find a better way.
Jeff Sheler
s/v Windsome
C27TR #6594
Hampton, VA
At 10:10 PM 6/20/2007, you wrote:
Well, maybe through one at a time
Rudolph S. Behar wrote:
Tim,
Cronkite? Isn't that the heavy anchor aboard, as opposed to the
lunch hook?
Rudy B.
tim ford wrote:
thanks for the 'eads up, Joe!
tf
btw, Cronkite used to keep his 48 footer, "Wyntje,"here, in Spa
Creek but I think
now that he has sorta retired he keeps his bigger boat (64
feet?) up on one of
those fancy islands off the coast of Mass...Martha's Tucket or
VinylHaven or
some such place where the guys where red pants with whales on them.
Joe McCary wrote:
They sometimes don't trash them after 60 tacks... sometimes
they wait until
they return to port to trash them. They "could" make 60+ tacks
in a race.
It is fun to watch the races even though it doesn't really seem
to relate to
what I do on the water. Also there was a very good show on the
history of
the America's Cup last Saturday morning on ESPN Classic
narrated by Walter
Cronkite, a sailor himself. If it comes around again be sure
to catch it.
Joe McCary
Aeolus II
West River, MD
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of tim ford
you are a lucky man to have a new, stiff sail!
it'll get flaccid soon enough...er....well....that's enough about that.
btw, the AC Boats (heads-up: on Versus Saturday morning) get approx 60
tacks on a sail
before they trash-bin it.
