[C320-list] Barber Hauler - follow up

[Bev Wright]

Larry, thanks much for your detailed reply about your midship cleat. Now I
see why that works for you. Mine is on the jib car track which is not
outboard enough. I do have a small fixed cleat outboard at the gate area for
boarding lines which might work.  OK re switching sheets on the primary
winch, I can see how that would be tricky. Quantum guy is going to meet me
at the boat once the jib is on to see how/if rigging one is possible with
the equipment I have. It would only be for racing. 


Bev Wright
1993 C-320 "Whoosh" #15
Deale, MD (Chesapeake Bay, HHN) 

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:18:52 -0500
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Bev,

I permanently installed midship cleats just inside of the toe rail.  They
are mounted on a block of starboard and thru bolted to the underside of the
deck using aluminum backing plates.  They is no taking them off!  What we do
is attach a second sheet on the working side of the genoa using a snap
shackle at the clew and route this outside of the lifeline to a block
attached to the midship cleat with a short piece of line or a soft shackle
and then immediately to the primary winch going under the lifelines.  The
lead to the winch isn't perfect but it is pretty good.  You have to work
carefully to switch from the usual sheet to the reaching sheet and you don't
probably want to do this if the load on the usual sheet is high.    We do
not tack or gibe with the reaching sheet rigged.  We install it after a tack
or jibe and remove it before the next tack or jibe.  We only use it when
racing.  Too much bother otherwise.

Larry
WindSwept C320 #246

?On 3/22/20, 3:06 PM, "C320-list on behalf of Bev Wright"
<c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com on behalf of
bev.wright at verizon.net> wrote:

    I want to thank everyone for their comments which I will pass along to
    Quantum for comment. Quantum said it was definitely a sail trim control
when
    reaching. Scott explained how Quantum said it's used to my recollection.

    
    Seems that Larry has rigged one on a C-320 - other terms for barber
hauler
    are short sheet and I believe reaching sheet. Larry, I have midship
cleats
    for spring lines but we remove them when sailing to avoid the jib sheets
    getting caught on them which has happened, but you put a block there
which I
    can do. However, where does the sheet lead to after that?
     
    I don't have a toe rail on my C-320 (does anyone?)  Also, I have a 150%
so
    it may not be needed as much on a 135%. 
    
    I may also have misspoken when I said it could replace a whisker pole -
    Quantum said it might or could in certain situations.
    
    I would love to have the EZ Glide adjustable genoa car tracks but will
have
    to wait another year to install.
    
    Bev Wright
    1993 C-320 "Whoosh" #15
    Deale, MD (Chesapeake Bay, HHN)