[C320-list] Single Line Reefing

[Stanley Rogacevicz]

Irv,
  I did it, but it's one of the very few things I never posted a
picture of and it's a bit hard to describe. I used a large SS washer
(too big to pass through the grommet) with a small hole on one side
attached to a small block on the other side of the sail grommet. I
passed a small line (about 3/16) through the washer, then through the
grommet, then through the body of the block, then back through the
grommet, back through the washer, and then tied the two ends together
with a big enough knot to keep it from passing through the washer. Not
very elegant, but by not using any sharp metal objects for connections
it didn't damage the sail and did the job.
Stan
(formerly) Christy Leigh
c320 #656
Wickford/Narragansett Bay RI

>>> igrunes at comcast.net 6/7/2006 11:17 AM >>>
Guys,
There was a thread a year or so back about single line reefing.  I just
sent
the following to my boat partner.
Is there any album that shows what people used for the luff pulley
described
below and has anyone actually done this?.
I don't remember it right now, but there is supposed to be a way to
make
reefing a single line control by addig a pulley to the main luff
reefing
cringle. Then reeving the port side reefing line from the cockpit
stopper to
the deck mast pulley(where it now is), up through the new luff reefing
pulley, down to a new mast base pulley, into the boom then to the
leech
cringle as we now have it, then to tie off at the boom.  The key being
a
pulley on a strap of some kind on the luff reefing cringle. The main
objection to this as I remember it, was all of the resistance that is
encountered by the lines going through all of the pulleys. This would
eliminate the need to go on deck in possible bad weather to reef the
main.
Irv Grunes
Isle of Wight #851