Using the standard factory mainsheet configuration, can you actually adjust the main using the wench when there is tension of the sheet???
I have found that by the time the sheet gets back to the winch that there are too many block bends causing too much friction. I adjust my mainsheet by pulling on the aft most mainsheet run, from traveler to boom, then pulling up the slack at the winch and use the self tailing winch as nothing more then a very fancy cleat. There has never been a time that I could not adjust the mainsheet this way. I have learned that the easiest main trimming configuration, for tacking into the wind, is to move the traveler fully windward and set the mainsheet such that the boom is midship, then use the traveler to trim the main. Though every tack requires that the traveler be moved to the windward side to re-trim the main. I also do this because, with my main, proper main trim for highest pointing angle has the boom almost midship. A good dose of silicon spray lubricant on the truck wheels has really helped the old Catalina OEM traveler. John 1985 C27TR 5956 Cool Change Lake Travis, Austin, TX 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.
