[C320-list] Traveler issue

[crashley at gte.net]

Stan,

When you sugest "washing" your lines, do you use a washing machine, and 
detergent or what?

CRA
Rosebud #882


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stanley Rogacevicz" <SROGACEV at holycross.edu>
To: <C320-List at catalina320.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Traveler issue


Russ,
   If when you are close reaching, fall off a bit and drop the traveler to 
leeward a bit and the slack lines on the leeward side of the traveler 
imediately start to look like mating snakes I would suggest taking them home 
and washing them. Even braided line will eventually 'take a set' or whatever 
the term is if they are stressed the same way for years. You can see the 
same thing on your mainsheet lines as they go through the blocks under the 
boom - sometimes the lines develop such a burned in twist that the block 
that is suposed to be vertical twists itself horizontal.
Stan... again...

 I should re-word my previous post - It's not a "fix" but it gave me much 
easier and quicker access to the lines to do the Push - Pull needed to keep 
unwanted slack out of the traveler.
Stan
Russ,
   I've only seen a couple different brands of travelers - but they are all 
the same. My (maybe extreme) solution to fix that and the issue of slicing 
my wife's neck as she lounges against the bulkhead was to move the lines out 
around the dodger and back to cleats at the forward stanchion of the pushpit 
(pictures on the web). I then had to step over those lines going forward but 
the trade off was worth it to me - and my wife who could enjoy sailing the 
way she wanted to - from the horizontal. I just figure that if I'm not agile 
enough to step over a line then I have no business going forward any way.
Stan
(formerly) Christy Leigh
c320 #656
Wickford/Narragansett Bay RI


>>> russgm at yahoo.com 5/16/2006 1:24 PM >>>
    I assume I am not the only one with this problem:
To use the traveler, you need to keep tension on one side as you pull in the 
other, otherwise you get lines bunched up on the traveler.
The design of the traveler i beleive causes this...Has anyone come up with a 
way to avoid the traveler line getting caught up?

  Russ Monaco


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