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Title: Setting Up Running Rigging-Sail Controls
Author: Terry F. Ellis
Date: January 21, 1999
This is how I have currently rigged my Beneteau First 21.0 Classic:
The outhaul exits a sheave at the gooseneck fitting next to mast. It
is led straight down parallel with the mast to a turning block with a swivel
base attached to the mast step. From there, it leads to one of the triple
turning cheek blocks about 30 degrees aft of the mast base and in line
with the spinloc clutches. From there it leads straight back , just inside
the spinloc clutch to a cleat at the cockpit hatch (mine's to port of the
hatch opening). There is no change in the outhaul as the boom swings across.
The jammer is still in the gooseneck fitting. It just
never engages as the outhaul line which is tensioned downward. There
is no noticeable change in the tension on the outhaul was talking about
when adjusting the boom angles. I have not run my reefing nor my topping
lift line back. I rarely reef and rarely use the topping lift.
Running back to the cabin hatch is 1) main halyard 2) jib halyard 3)
spinnaker halyard 4) spinnaker pole topping lift 5) main outhaul 6) main
cunningham 7) jib cunningham 8) spinnaker pole downhaul. The boom vang
drops down into the hatch. That leaves only the reefing and boom topping
lift at the mast. Some day, I plan to reverse the topping lift so I can
control it at the boom end and lead the reefing line back to the cockpit.
But, I'm running outta space to put turning blocks and cleats! I also plan
to install jib fairlead traveller cars too. Lotsa lines. So, to date I've
avoided any more. Oh yeah, then there's the main sheet on barney post which
I reversed for cleating on boom plus the backstay tensioning line which
leads into the cockpit from the transom! "Lotsa Lines"!
Have fun,
Terry
Title: Setting Up Running Rigging-Sail Controls
Model(s): First 210
System(s): Rigging & tuning
Author: Terry F. Ellis
updated May 12, 2004
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