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Old 08-20-2006, 09:39 AM
newbflat newbflat is offline
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Join Date: May 2006
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Default Main sheet help....

Hello to all..... I have a 32 foot double ender (Rhodes Traveller 32) that im in the process of refitting and im contemplating moving the main sheet. As is, It was sheeted to each side of the boom crutch then runs forward along the boom, then to the deck and back to a winch on the cabin top...... The crutch is old and bit flimsy and for this application i don't trust it. At the moment i don't have the money for a nice bronze boom crutch / traveller arrangement from Port Townsend Foundry...... So..... i want to move it to the aft end of the boat on both side of the tiller on the boomkin (still on deck, not out on the boomkin). My question (yes i have one!) is in the main sheet arrangement. At the moment im thinking of an arrangement with a fiddle block with cam cleat on each side of the tiller and a triple on the boom giving me a 6 to1 purchase and is double ended (there are "real cleats" just forward of the fiddles to use when required). Seeing that i have never used a double ended main sheet ....... is this enough purchase? (15400 lbs and a 280 square foot main 580 over all sail plane).....am i going to get annoying twisting in the triple block?....... is this a good idea?....... what should i consider here??????.

Thanks to all...
Bill, .... In seattle
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