Yes I can winch it in, but I find that it's easier to just pull in the line by hand at the truck then it is to mount the winch handle onto the winch.
I wonder, I have not lubricated the mainsheet deck organizer sheave, hmmm. John Jeffery L. Sheler wrote: > John. That's the only way I have ever done it. If I want to take in > some slack in the main (say I had let it out earlier to spill some > air) I winch it in. In a stiff breeze I don't believe I have enough > purchase to do it without the winch. Letting it out, of course, > simply requires releasing the sheet from the groove. > > At 09:58 AM 6/24/2007, you wrote: >> ...Using the standard factory mainsheet configuration, can you actually >> adjust the main using the wench when there is tension of the sheet??? >> >> Jeffery L. Sheler wrote: >>> Hey Ray. That's another route I was thinking of going. Are you able to >>> tend the sheet without using a winch? >>> >>> Jeff Sheler >>> s/v Windsome >>> C27TR #6594 >>> Hampton, VA >>> >>> At 11:58 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote: >>>> Jeff, >>>> Mine had the same arrangement. I put a cam cleat on the fiddle >>>> block so that now it's cleat ed right on the traveler car.
