[C320-list] Reefing Help

[Stephane Rousseau]

Hello Brian,

You can check the pictures a the following url:
http://www.catalina320.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album34

This helped us to figure a way of getting it working,

Stephane
Catalina 320 Hull 544

On 5/28/07, Amirault Family <amiraults at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> Had my all-in-one first sail and first race with Waltzing Bear, too this
> past Thursday. The expectation was that we would drop out early to
> correct setup problems of our own making. Nothing went seriously wrong
> and this first race with a boat new to the entire crew managed 6 of 12.
> We hope for better as the boat, it not the crew, is a contender.
>
> My problem is that I have yet to set up the reef lines. I have two reef
> lines, each knotted at both ends and running through the inside of the
> boom. At the back end, this includes two internal to the boom pulleys.
> There appear to be no brackets or blocks on the boom as attach points,
> but there is a block for each line at opposite sides of the bottom of
> the mast, and labeled stoppers for each near the cockpit.
>
> How are these lines run? I have a 2001 boat but the reef page in the
> manual has an issue for 2003 and newer; and the diagram only resembles
> what my boat actually looks like. The main has full battens and a
> Dutchman. Any insight will be appreciated.
>
> Brian Amirault
> 797 Waltzing Bear, too
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