[C320-list] Mainsheet

[Rick Evans]

I am wondering where the fiddle block would go?

on the traveler? Then you could never use it with a dodger.

I will have to really think about it.

Rick
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pat Ireland <cherie320 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Copied from the Cat 34 forum - tom's post - dated 2002 -
> "I'm also going to upgrade the mainsheet system too...Garhauer is working
> up
> a 7:1 system (vice 5:1) with a cleat on the fiddle block, while also
> leaving
> the other free end going to the winch (like original); all with ball
> bearing
> blocks...That way we can "fast trim" off the fiddle, then fine trim with
> the
> winch...
>
>  After racing just once, we found that trying to bring the main up after a
> downwind leg took way too long, and was too much work...So with the new
> system, we can pull the majority of the line up from the fiddle, then
> switch
> back to the winch side when it gets loaded...Of course we have to remember
> to keep one end of the sheet in a cleat at all times :-)"
> Pat, 801
>