[C320-list] Replacing The Outhaul Line

[hcreech at comcast.net]

Sounds like your talking about the reefing lines, not the outhaul? 

Herb Creech 
Cloud Chaser 606 




----- Original Message -----
From: "Irving Grunes" <igrunes at gmail.com> 
To: C320-List at catalina320.com 
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:19:54 AM 
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Replacing The Outhaul Line 

Don 
The outhaul line #851 is shown in the Charleston Spar Manual on the website. 
It goes up into the boom then thru a floating block and then the end is 
fixed to the boom(inside) some place near the mast. 
There is a line from a becket on the block that comes out the end of the 
boom for the outhaul. 

You can see this if you pull the outhaul line out of the boom and see the 
block and how its fastened to give a 2:1 advantage to control the main clew. 

Short of pulling the boom and and undoing the rivets at the gooseneck, I 
have no idea as to how to replace that line. 
I have not run across anyone who has done that on this list. 

Irv Grunes #851 

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:51 AM, <donjohn50 at roadrunner.com> wrote: 

> My outhaul line is frayed and almost gone & I need to replace the line. 
> The line goes into the boom and transitions to a light cable inside the 
> boom which exits the rear of the boom and attaches to the sail. I was 
> looking at some historical discussions on this topic, but didn't see a 
> conclusive answer as to how to do it. 
> 
> Anybody know if you can attach a messenger line to the old (rope) line, 
> and pull through the cable followed by the old line and trailing messenger, 
> and then reverse the process with new line? If not this way, any guidance 
> on how to do it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. 
> 
> Don Johnson 
> #53 
> 
>