Re: Stus-List Cunningham / reefing?
Good sailmakers will suggest a dogbone, a strip of wbbing with an O-ring on each end through the reef grommet or ring. They might sew one side for you and have you hand stitch the other ring on. It's MUCH easier to get that ring on your hook. Or you can use a cunningham with a hook like this, http://www.atlanticriggingsupply.com/wi2snho.html to pull it down with. Course we are so poor, I just take a scrap line down under the gooseneck and around the front of the mast an quickly tie it down and raise the halyard. What ever works. . . I use my Cunningham when I reef to reduce pressure on the double hook thing above the gooseneck. That being said, I don't think my double hook thing (tack hook) has ever been properly installed since I've owned the boat. It's a stainless rod that becomes the hinge pin of the gooseneck and has a very small hole through it at the bottom where I place a small washer and split pin to hold it in place. Without the Cunningham in place the upward tension on the luff of the main places a lot of load on this little pin and I have had one break while reefed after forgetting the Cunningham. This resulted in gooseneck separation which killed my race as fitting it all back together in 25 knots with a boom kicker is nearly impossible without taking everything apart. What is the proper configuration of this little double hook thing (tack hook)? Is there something better than a split pin for this? Brent D 27-5 Lake Winnipeg. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2015, at 6:09 PM, Chuck S via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: FWIW, I agree with Antoine's description of using the Cunningham and Flattening Reef. These tweaks are used similarly on all mainsails, from dinghies to bigger keel boats. Chuck Resolute 1990 CC 34R Broad Creek, Magothy River, Md From: Antoine Rose via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com To: David Paine mailto:paineda...@gmail.compaineda...@gmail.com, mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:44:33 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List Cunningham Hi David, To answer your question, we need to go back a bit to the origin the cunningham. Well, the main sail is up and properly tensioned, which mean that the halyard point is close to the mast top block to use the full length of your mast. Wind is light, not too much tension is needed on the halyard. As wind increases, more is needed. Eventually, the halyard is fully tensioned but the wind still get a bit stronger, but not enough to reef and, since you're racing you don't want to give any water to that boat just beside yours. As the wind increases, the sail draft moves back, increasing heeling and reducing speed. Tensioning the cunningham does just that, bringing the draft forward for two reasons: it increases the tensioning but also, because the cunningham grommet is slightly aft of the sail, pull forward the main foot. Having the grommet has another advantage. If you have a corresponding grommet on the leach side, you can take a six inch reef (sorry, don't how it's called in English, ris de fond in French). This very small reef does not reduce substantially the size of the sail but removes much of the draft. A flatter main points higher and reduce heeling. Antoine (CC 30 Cousin) Le 2015-01-25 à 18:32, David Paine via CnC-List a écrit : Hi All, I'm buying a new mainsail and I am going to ask a ridiculous-sounding question. Do you have a Cunningham grommet in your mainsail? I do not in my current sail but that is because Hood made the sail with a jack line (or lace line) which serves the purpose. My new sail definitely won't have a jack-line. Some adjust luff tension with the halyard, others use a separate Cunningham grommet with a many part tackle (or lead the Cunningham line to a winch) to set the luff tension. My sailmaker has an opinion but my question is, which do you use? The Cunningham is useless when reefed, of course. Cheers, David ___ Email address: mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.comCnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.comhttp://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.comCnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.comhttp://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.comCnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at:
Re: Stus-List Cunningham / reefing?
Poor or not...I run aline from mast collar thru cringle then to 4 to 1 purchase. Works like a charm. David F. Risch. Please excuse brevity and possible typos...sent from my mobile device. div Original message /divdivFrom: Lee Youngblood via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com /divdivDate:01/27/2015 5:52 PM (GMT-05:00) /divdivTo: Brent Driedger bren...@highspeedcrow.ca, cnc-list@cnc-list.com /divdivSubject: Re: Stus-List Cunningham / reefing? /divdiv /div Good sailmakers will suggest a dogbone, a strip of wbbing with an O-ring on each end through the reef grommet or ring. They might sew one side for you and have you hand stitch the other ring on. It's MUCH easier to get that ring on your hook. Or you can use a cunningham with a hook like this, http://www.atlanticriggingsupply.com/wi2snho.html to pull it down with. Course we are so poor, I just take a scrap line down under the gooseneck and around the front of the mast an quickly tie it down and raise the halyard. What ever works. . . I use my Cunningham when I reef to reduce pressure on the double hook thing above the gooseneck. That being said, I don't think my double hook thing (tack hook) has ever been properly installed since I've owned the boat. It's a stainless rod that becomes the hinge pin of the gooseneck and has a very small hole through it at the bottom where I place a small washer and split pin to hold it in place. Without the Cunningham in place the upward tension on the luff of the main places a lot of load on this little pin and I have had one break while reefed after forgetting the Cunningham. This resulted in gooseneck separation which killed my race as fitting it all back together in 25 knots with a boom kicker is nearly impossible without taking everything apart. What is the proper configuration of this little double hook thing (tack hook)? Is there something better than a split pin for this? Brent D 27-5 Lake Winnipeg. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2015, at 6:09 PM, Chuck S via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: FWIW, I agree with Antoine's description of using the Cunningham and Flattening Reef. These tweaks are used similarly on all mainsails, from dinghies to bigger keel boats. Chuck Resolute 1990 CC 34R Broad Creek, Magothy River, Md From: Antoine Rose via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com To: David Paine mailto:paineda...@gmail.compaineda...@gmail.com, mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:44:33 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List Cunningham Hi David, To answer your question, we need to go back a bit to the origin the cunningham. Well, the main sail is up and properly tensioned, which mean that the halyard point is close to the mast top block to use the full length of your mast. Wind is light, not too much tension is needed on the halyard. As wind increases, more is needed. Eventually, the halyard is fully tensioned but the wind still get a bit stronger, but not enough to reef and, since you're racing you don't want to give any water to that boat just beside yours. As the wind increases, the sail draft moves back, increasing heeling and reducing speed. Tensioning the cunningham does just that, bringing the draft forward for two reasons: it increases the tensioning but also, because the cunningham grommet is slightly aft of the sail, pull forward the main foot. Having the grommet has another advantage. If you have a corresponding grommet on the leach side, you can take a six inch reef (sorry, don't how it's called in English, ris de fond in French). This very small reef does not reduce substantially the size of the sail but removes much of the draft. A flatter main points higher and reduce heeling. Antoine (CC 30 Cousin) Le 2015-01-25 à 18:32, David Paine via CnC-List a écrit : Hi All, I'm buying a new mainsail and I am going to ask a ridiculous-sounding question. Do you have a Cunningham grommet in your mainsail? I do not in my current sail but that is because Hood made the sail with a jack line (or lace line) which serves the purpose. My new sail definitely won't have a jack-line. Some adjust luff tension with the halyard, others use a separate Cunningham grommet with a many part tackle (or lead the Cunningham line to a winch) to set the luff tension. My sailmaker has an opinion but my question is, which do you use? The Cunningham is useless when reefed, of course. Cheers, David ___ Email address: mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.comCnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.comhttp://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.comCnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including
