[C320-list] Single Line Reefing

[Pat Moriarty]

I thought so too. I guess old boats are better than new ones. I only 
reef if it is over 35MPH consistently anyway and as a lake sailor I 
have the option to turn and run........weeeee what a ride...

Pat #130At 08:39 AM 6/7/2006, you wrote:
>I thought all of these boats came with single line reefing?! Mine 
>did and it's a 1994 model...
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>Are there different reefing systems on other boats?
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>OD
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>From: C320-List-bounces
>Sent: 06/07/2006 08:17 AM
>To: "C320-List" <C320-List at catalina320.com>
>Subject: [C320-list] Single Line Reefing
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>Guys,
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>There was a thread a year or so back about single line reefing.  I just sent
>the following to my boat partner.
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>Is there any album that shows what people used for the luff pulley described
>below and has anyone actually done this?.
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>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
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>Isle of Wight #851
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