[C320-list] Single Line Reefing

[Jeffrey Hare]

Irv,

  Mainsheet had a good technical note sometime a year or so back about a
C380 owner who added blocks to ease the reefing process.  Check your
back-issues as it explained how to rig the reefing lines with a sail mounted
block.

-Jeff



-----Original Message-----
From: Irv Grunes [mailto:igrunes at comcast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:18 AM
To: C320-List
Subject: [C320-list] Single Line Reefing


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