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Originally Posted by Ian McColgin
In another deadeye thread here I mentioned that I hesitated to mention setting up by taking in lee slack since it really is wrong. Here's the thing - Why wrong? Because it's really easy to set the rig up slanted (which really the wind does not care about too much) or with the mast out of athwartships column. Absolutely one should not fine tune this way if you have turnbuckles or if you have tools. But if you've no tools and a sloppy rig and if you make in less than half the available slack on each tack, monitoring the colum and testing for centering, it can be done. Slow and easy.
Anyway, I hope Jamie or someone finds his pictures of the gizmo. It's cool.
G'luck
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REALLY slow way to do it, much quicker and safer to do it on the dock side using the throat halyard with maybe another tackle to increase the purchase......... and as for tools you'd need the same tools when doing it the wrong way
anyone with any idea of good rigging practice wouldn't consider going to sea with slack rigging, the potential shock loading induced on the rig when tacking a loose rig is huge even in light airs, all that banging and crashing about will soon shake something loose and is just not worth the risk
Plus there is much less chance of going for a swim when setting up the rig in the berth
