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Subject: Re: First season with a 500

Author:
Brian Henry
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Date Posted: 15/10/03 20:17:32
In reply to: Ronan Laffan 's message, "Re: First season with a 500" on 14/10/03 15:21:59

>if you are going to use roller reefing on the boom, get a
>main with a luff rope. Conversely, for slab reefing, get
>a main with sliders.

I have the original through-mast roller reefing on my T500 and had a rope luff on my main and have recently added sliders - an excellent modification. Why?

Consider being single-handed and the wind increases quickly and dramatically; I have had this situation many times where I sail. Because of the gooseneck problem you have commented on, which restricts the angle of the boom to the mast when reefing, one must tension the mainsheet to keep the boom fore and aft for rotating. One must also attempt to keep the ship�s head as much to windward as possible to have minimum pressure on the sail. However, I have invariably found that when I went forward to the mast for reefing, the Trapper, twitchy bitch that she is, would fall completely off the wind no matter how the helm was locked and the resulting angle of wind in the mainsail would press the entire luff length against one side of the bolt rope groove creating so much friction from the sail that there was no way to lower it.

Since I have added sliders to the bolt rope and used them in the luff groove I can lower the main even when the ship�s head has fallen off and there is a weight of beam wind in the mainsail because the friction of the sliders is nothing compared to the boltrope sail section.

This summer I had a wonderful single handed cruise with a peace of mind that there were not going to be any more panic moments getting the mainsail either reefed or down when the wind piped up.

Regards,
Brian.

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Re: First season with a 500 john templar 16/10/03 17:02:04

Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian Henry, 16/10/03 19:05:53

Re: First season with a 500 -- Nick, 17/10/03 16:51:04

Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian Henry, 17/10/03 18:28:31

Re: First season with a 500 -- nick, 19/10/03 13:43:21

Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian Henry, 19/10/03 16:51:22

Re: First season with a 500 -- john templar, 21/10/03 1:13:20

Re: First season with a 500 -- John.templar, 21/10/03 1:08:58

Re: First season with a 500 -- nick, 21/10/03 9:30:01
Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian Henry, 21/10/03 11:14:46

Re: First season with a 500 -- Graham Harrison, 22/10/03 1:36:38

Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian Henry, 22/10/03 9:59:18

Re: First season with a 500 -- nick, 22/10/03 20:01:39

Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian Henry, 22/10/03 23:46:23

Re: First season with a 500 -- john termplar, 23/10/03 13:43:41

Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian Henry, 23/10/03 14:46:32

Re: First season with a 500 -- john.templar, 24/10/03 0:45:23

Re: First season with a 500 -- nick, 24/10/03 3:39:43
Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian Henry, 24/10/03 8:56:43

Re: First season with a 500 -- nick, 24/10/03 12:14:25

Re: T500/501 self steering - Autohelm -- Brian Henry, 24/10/03 14:45:39
Re: First season with a 500 -- Brian, 27/10/03 16:57:02

Re: First season with a 500 -- john templar, 24/10/03 14:12:30

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Re: Autohelm 1000 -- Brian Henry, 26/10/03 13:45:40

Re: Autohelm 1000 -- nick, 26/10/03 15:43:27

Re: Autohelm 1000 -- Brian Henry, 26/10/03 16:52:14

Re: Autohelm 1000 -- Nick Mitchener, 26/10/03 17:04:33
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Re: Autohelm 1000 -- Brian Henry, 29/10/03 9:33:57