Hi Dan,
Try to keep the sail controls in the cockpit and push everything else
back to the mast. Keep your mainsheet and traveler lines clean and
close. Vang turns out to be really important sometimes, like when
power reaching with a chute up. If you can't go to the mast to reef
it's too late. If you go up to the mast all the time, to reef or
change the outhaul, then you will be comfortable there. Accessible
outhaul is really important when switching downwind to upwind, and
crew usually takes on that responsibility. If you don't have crew,
you have time to work things out.
Spaghetti in the cockpit is as dangerous as anything else on the
boat. I'd leave all the halyards at the mast. Pole lift and
downhaul is good at the companionway, but only if you have a good pit
person. I used to do bow, only on a new boat when I could bring a
known pit, and I've done stupid slow dip pole jibes, running back and
forth like a chicken with my head cut off - argh. We were double
handing the Frers 41, a really big Olson 30.
2 cents, Lee
I have 4 rope clutches sharing one secondary cabin top winch
(Barient 22) to port at the cockpit. There's a single horn cleat
between the mainsheet winch and the 22 that is usually used to back
up the clutch for the main halyard. The candidate lines to bring aft
to the rope clutches are, in my order of preference:
1) Main halyard
2) Vang
3) Spin pole topping lift/staysail/storm jib halyard (3/4 height on
the mast, and there is a narrow reaching staysail)
4) Primary Spinnaker halyard
This leaves:
5) Primary Genoa halyard
6) Secondary Genoa halyard
7) Secondary Spinnaker halyard
For the cabin top 18's near the mast and finally,
8) Spin pole slide uphaul
8) Spin pole slide downhaul
For the mast and cabin top 10s, respectively.
This is not the current arrangement. Does what I propose make sense?
Should I choose differently?
Damn, that's a lot of lines! Do I really need to lube all 12 winches
every year???!!! What have I gotten myself into????
Dan Sheer
Pegathy LF38
Rock Creek off the Patapsco
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