Grenadine came with mainsail halyard and spinnaker pole topping lift exiting the mast on the starboard side, and two headsail halyards exiting the mast on the port side, plus the spinnaker halyard (external to the mast) cleating on the port side of the mast.
I switched the mainsail halyard and the primary headsail halyard so that the mainsail halyard now exits the port side of the mast, and the primary headsail halyard exits the starboard side of the mast. The spare headsail halyard still exits the port side of the mast. The rationale was for racing with the spinnaker, the crew member at the mast could raise the pole, then hoist the spinnaker, then drop the headsail, all from the starboard side of the mast (which is normally the windward side at spinnaker hoist time on a windward / leeward course with marks left to port). That was all a good theory, but it hasn’t really worked that way in practice. (Remember Yogi Berra said “In theory, practice and theory are the same. But in practice they’re not.”) For one thing the spinnaker halyard still cleats on the port side of the mast. Ideally it would cleat on the starboard side, so the mast crew member could hoist and cleat it from the starboard side. For another thing we lead the primary headsail halyard aft, so someone in the cockpit controls it. For another thing we normally launch the spinnaker from a turtle aft of the port shrouds, and it has a dousing sock on it. So some crew member (foredeck) has to be on the port side anyway, to open the turtle, hoist the sock after the spinnaker is hoisted, and cleat the sock halyard. For a last thing some crew member (foredeck) has to pull the headsail down by its luff and tie it down. So our foredeck guy normally hoists the spinnaker and cleats its halyard, instead of the mast guy doing that. Basically all our mast guy does is raise the pole. But not leading the primary headsail halyard aft, and putting another horn cleat on the starboard side of the mast for the spinnaker halyard, could keep him busier. Cheers, Randy Stafford S/V Grenadine C&C 30-1 #7 Ken Caryl, CO > On Dec 12, 2017, at 6:42 PM, David Kaseler via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > In my experience headsail halyards are led on the port side and main on the > starboard. On SLY we carry just three headsail halyards configured as one jib > and two spinnaker. When changing jibs we use one of the spin halyards and > back to the jib if we need to change headsails again. This all works for us. > All three of these headsail halyards are led aft to brakes on the cabin > house. Three brakes side by side. Left to right the port spinnaker halyard > with red markers in the line, center is the all white jib halyard and to the > right is the starboard spinnaker halyard with green markers in the line. > In my opinion if you move some of the headsail halyards to the starboard side > you might confuse visiting crew members who are used to the more conventional > set up. > Just my thoughts, > Dave. > SLY 1975 C&C 33 > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Dec 12, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Matthew L. Wolford via CnC-List >> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and > every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray
