Hi Ron,
I've been sick for couple of weeks and let your C270 questions slip by but at least one of your comments struck me as strange this morning so let try to start over. My original mainsheet was double ended. The was 6:1 fiddle block (similar to a vang set) with a cam cleat the rode on the traveler and what we'd think of as the bitter end went down along the vang to a turning block over to the deck organizer and back under the dog house to the starboard rope clutch. This allows you to pick up the load with the winch if you need to. We have a dodger so a fiddle set with a rear facing control line on the traveler put the windshield at risk. >From the factory the boat comes with messenger lines running under the dog house. If your PO pulled a line out getting it back takes a little forethought, since we trailer Wing Tip rigging and unrigging is a way of life so we have it covered. We keep a green plastic plant stake with a medium sided alligator clip attached on the side tray in the aft cabin. When squeezed fully it can just get around a 5/16" line. We simple side it forward under the dog house from the cockpit side and position the tip of the clip horizontally between the organizer sheaves where we want a particular line run. Then I simply open the clip with the tips of my multi-tool pliers and insert tip of the line. Pulling it trough is easy if it doesn't kink out by the organizer. Getting the end through the clutch is a bit tricky and may require you to whip or sew a couple of inches line to keep it from expanding as you push it through. Sometimes giving it bit of a spin clear the fibers that were starting to catch on the jaws and it just runs through. The turning blocks after the headsail foreleads on Wing Tip look like they were altered by my dealer. It's his practice to order boats without all the deck hardware installed and do it in house to save some cost on the boat from the factory. Our turning blocks (a hefty Lewmar cheek block with a line stopper) are up on a riser and positioned such that the line come cleanly back along the fairlead track and then turns up and in to meet the base of the CST30 correctly. It maybe the line selected for the sheets is too stiff to run through the block, or the block position is off but ours works well. I think swapping pictures would help. I don't think you can make that swivel block and maintain the line stopper function, which is required to sail the boat safely. Phil Agur <http://www.catalina27.org/public_pages/profile270.htm> s/v Wing Tip C270 LE #184 MMSI 366901790 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Ginter Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 6:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IC27A] Rigging questions Hi All, The weather has been fantastic so I've been on the boat a lot. As tends to happen to most of us I assume, I'm out there cruising along and I start musing about the sails, the rigging, and the performance... 1) The owner's manual for my C270 shows the main sheet block and tackle set up with one line that also runs to the boom vang and then back to the starboard side sheet-stopper right beside the main halyard. Mine is set up with the main sheet separate from the boom vang. There's a slip cleat for the main sheet on the traveller as you'd expect, and the vang has a slip cleat too for its separate line, and nothing is routed back to the cockpit. Is there any reason for the PO to change it this way? If I change it back to original, and I need to run the line to the cockpit, do I need to remove the cover, or can I just fish it through with a wire? Does the cover come off with a few screws from inside the cabin? 2) The blocks for the foresail sheets look very nice but don't seem to work well. The sheet is always binding when released for a tack. It seems to me that the block should swivel because the sheet is pulling a little sideways to the winch. Or am I missing something? Now I'm off to the boat. Yet another day of 30 degree heat, nary a cloud in the sky, and 15 knot winds on Lake Ontario. Ahhhh..... <g> ...Ron (C270 #329 Oculus)
