[C320-list] double main sheet control?

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Some of our boats on have a single ended main sheet like on my 2007 C320 MKII.  It is routed to the cabin top on the starboard side with the other end dead ended on a pad eye mounted to the deck where the deck mounted turning block would be for a double ended system.  My boat came this way from the factory.  So, it is easy for those of us with a single mainsheet to not understand the double mainsheet system that has been the focus of this discussion.  

Anyway, my 2 cents.

Dave

David Swanson
S/V Emily Ann
2007 C320 MK II, No. 1107
Mukilteo, WA 


On Sep 17, 2012, at 1:29 PM, John Meyers wrote:

> I don't remember anyone suggesting this but.....
> 
> I use the starboard side on the winch and the port side is in the cleat so
> that I can quickly release the main in an emergency. I don't want to waste
> valuable time undoing the sheet from the winch. It really is a nice
> feature.
> 
> John Meyers
> Wind Chime
> Muskegon Mi
> 
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Annie Bennett <
> annie at sydneyprivatesailing.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Topcat I use the main sheet on the starboard side regardless of what
>> tack I'm on as I'm very right handed and it feels more comfortable to me. I
>> use the main sheet on the port side if I have non sailing guests who are
>> sitting in the way of the sheet on the starboard sheet so I don't have to
>> ask them to move.  Probably not a very technical reason I know.
>> 
>> Annie Bennett
>> Topcat #1073
>> 
>> On 14/09/2012, at 9:21 AM, Chris Burti <clburti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Proper sail trim dictates that you use the traveller primarily for
>>> changing the angle of attack, the vang for pulling the boom down or
>>> raising it to reduce twist, the mainsheet, outhaul and
>>> halyard/cunningham to move the draft of the sail forward or aft.
>>> 
>>> If you wish to move the boom in heavy air without using the winch,
>>> either luff up a little or ease the vang to reduce pressure on the
>>> sail. Either end of the sheet may be used. Both ends of the traveler
>>> should be synced.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Gene Helfman <genehelfman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> Having sailed for 50+ years on boats with only one main sheet, I'll
>> admit
>>>> to being totally perplexed with the port and starboard sheet
>> arrangement on
>>>> the 320, especially when going upwind in anything other than light air.
>>>> 
>>>> My instincts tell me that hardening the upwind sheet should pull the
>> boom
>>>> down and also bring it to windward (recognizing that the traveler also
>>>> determines boom alignment).  To do this, do you slack the downwind
>> sheet?
>>>> When I do this, the boom moves quickly downwind, making it even harder
>> to
>>>> pull the boom and sail to the upwind side, often requiring putting the
>>>> sheet on the winch and cranking hard.  Is there a protocol?
>>>> 
>>>> thanks,
>>>> gene
>>>> Satori #398
>>>> Gene Helfman, Professor Emeritus
>>>> Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
>>>> PERMANENT address:
>>>>   498 Shoreland Dr., Lopez Is., WA 98261
>>>>   (360) 468-2136
>>>>   genehelfman at gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day,
>>>> Teach a man to fish and he'll deplete the
>>>>     oceans."
>>>> 
>>>> The Book of Bob, Ironies 24:7
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Chris Burti
>>> Farmville, NC
>>