[C320-list] double main sheet control?

[Annie Bennett]

We had a double ended main sheet on our C32 #812. We found it so useful being able to control the main sheet from either side that although this was no longer standard by the time we bought  #1073 we made it double ended by adding a block to the pad eye on the portside of the deck the mainsheet would have dead ended to and adding a cam cleat next to the clutches on the port side for the sheet to run through. It works really well and the sheet doesn't come out of the cleat we chose as can sometimes happen with the factory fitted cleat with the red bar on the starboard side. 

Annie
Topcat III

On 17/09/2012, at 9:13 PM, Utility Email <kswanson123 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>>> 
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