[C320-list] double main sheet control?

[Jack McDonough]

Dave:

Yes, that's the same arrangement on my 2004 Catalina.  And that, as you 
correctly surmised, is why I was puzzled by talk of a double mainsheet.

jack
#947

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Subject: Re: [C320-list] double main sheet control?


> 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
>>>
>