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Reason I have not been sailing 27
Steve D
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Sent: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 6:05 pm
Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Traveler sheeting
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was responding from memory. I haven't
looked at the pictures in a year and I have been spending all my time
refurbishing the Catalina 34. The block on the boom just aft of the gooseneck
is throughbolted into the mast. You only have to remove the gooseneck for
access. If I did it again I would just install a bail similar to the ones
further aft.
Steve DeLange
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From: Joe McCary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 5:18 pm
Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: Traveler sheeting
Steve, I am sorry to stir up a hornet's nest, but I am about to start
installing
y traveler and your images are the most clear I have seen. The forward block
hat I am questioning, what I am seeing in the picture may not be SS screws (my
uess looking at a small detail in a large scale image) but I don't see how they
ould possibly be through bolted with backup. The bracket looks like it is
ounted on the underside of the boom. Could you share how you did that?
Joe McCary
eolus II #4795
est River, MD
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Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: Traveler sheeting
All the blocks are through bolted with backups.
Steve DeLange
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Subj: RE: catalina27-talk: Traveler sheeting
Date: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:06 pm
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Very wrong. The tension in the line is the tension in
he line everywhere.
The Harken Web site has some good data on block loads vs. line turning angles.
he
load on that block is almost 3/4 that on the traveler to boom blocks. Your
ine should
be the weak link, and if that block isn’t through bolted with backup plates,
t is a
potential disaster.
http://www.harken.com/charts/blockloadvangle.php
Keith Sneddon
Chief Engineer (Normally I delete this stuff).
Mechanized Systems
Defense Systems
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:52 PM
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Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Traveler sheeting
I'm no engineer, but I would think it is. Its only purpose is as a turning
lock. It
doesn't have the same pressures as the ones between the boom and traveler.
I had the original curved track traveler so I re-aligned my mainsheet
ontrol to the
traveler car. Now that I have the straight track travaler (Garhauer;
antastic!), I don't
need to keep it there but I still do.
You should seriously consider adding a boom vang. The midboom doesn't hold
he
boom down quite as good as the end-boom. Your sail shape will be much better
ith
a vang.
Bob
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From: "Joe McCary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As they say a picture is worth a million words (hey I am a photographer so
tend to
inflate the value of a photo a bit). The image I am referring to is:
http://www.delanges.com/Catalina_27/images/Traveler_2.JPG
Its from Steve’s website and shows his mid boom traveler. My rig will be
lightly
different, with double ended sheeting. The folks at Catalina Direct suggested
run the
sheet from the edge of the cabin top (near the handrail) forward to a
pinnaker block
on a spring then at a 45° to the first blocks on the boom and so on. In the
mage
above, while just single sided, he runs his sheet to the mast then down
hrough a
turning block then to a deck organizer then to the cleet. My question to
teve was, it
appears the block closest to the mast is held in position by a small stainless
trap with
just 2 sheet metal screws instead of a full through bolted bail on the boom,
s this
strong enough?
Joe McCary
Aeolus II
West River, MD
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Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: Cruiseair on C27-alternative method
Joe,
you should have a boom vang running at 45* from the boom to near mast
ase.
Running the mainsheet across this same area then makes sense, plus eliminating
ne
block from the whole setup.
I think you can see what I mean from pictures on my out-of-date website:
mywebpages.comcast.net/sailrmann
Bob Mann
Windcatcher
'85 #5928
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