[C320-list] double main sheet control?

[Chris Burti]

Same here

Thanks
Chris Burti
From: John Meyers
Sent: 9/17/2012 4:29 PM
To: C320-List at catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] double main sheet control?
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
>