I have a dutchman system on my new boat, so was looking at this yesterday.
There is no absolute limit on roach or requirement for a topping lift
(there is a need for a line between mast head and boom end, so maybe that's
semantics). With the Tides Marine track and dutchman, the main disappears
in
I guess I need a bit of education from the list.
The boats that I have been on that have a Dutchman flaking system (which is
only 1 or 2) have all had the top of the vertical (monofilament?) lines that
the sail slides down attached to the topping lift. I thought this was the
norm. Dwight’s
