Sheet lead upgrade
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Genoa sheet leads are critical to the performance of a roller-reefed sail. Certain quality cruisers have inbuilt tackles to set the leads where you want them, and a good thing too. For the rest of us, some other system is needed if we aren’t to have a headsail that looks like a flour-bag and drags us over rather driving us ahead. Here’s an accurate system I’ve devised that solves the problem safely without having to tack after moving the lazy lead.
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Genius! I love simple, straightforward solutions that's more about ingenuity than engineering. I'll be copying this on the 1967 gaff rigged Norwegian spissgatter I became the proud owner of today! Time to pick up a copy of your Hand, Reef and Steer 🙂
Thank you Tom.
You hit the bullseye there.
Tom invented the twing!
Thanks Tom. Very nice.
Chuck in Florida.
Great! Greetings from The Gambia.
I suppose if you forget to put the ring on the genoa sheet ahead of time, you can use a snatch block instead.
Yep! Every boat should have a snatch block or two handy.
Very nicely done Tom.😀👍⛵️
absolutely Brilliant, well done
Hi tom have a great day
Nice solution - if you located it by the coach roof you can also use it as a pretty awesome in-hauler to point a few degrees higher. 2 for the price of 1!
I had three sets of cars on the last boat, ( as you do).. Genoa, Slutter sheet and a spare but I never thought to try a down haul ( or even use the boom preventer ) from one of them right up to the Genoa sheet - doh! Funny how everything raceboaty becomes accepted on a cruising boat too!
I really like your way of thinking. Good job!
Top Man Tom👍.
Brilliant! I know what my next project is going to be. Thanks Tom!
Awesome…..rigging up today! Thanks, Andrew
Brilliant. Thanks Tom!
Great idea.
Great idea 💡
Good advice. Thank you
Nice idea Tom
Brilliant solution. So easy, and a lot better than faffing about with a stupid car
The LF ring has to be on the sheets all the time and a line run down the side deck, all the time in order to be at the ready.
I've used a snatch block to a desired point, and a loose bowline around the sheet. Sinch it down, move the car, and you can remove the line and snatch block.
Good alternative solution
Smart and simple
My Bowman 47 doesn’t have tracks for the genoa leads. Didn’t have them when I bought it and it wasn’t something I noticed at first so I was a bit appalled at the oversight.
However my very simple solution is the low friction ring on each sheet to a 4:1 block and tackle down to a strong point on the deck. I adjust this from the cockpit, no winch required and cleat it off on one of two horn cleats on each side of the cockpit.
Now I understand why it doesn’t have tracks and why cruising boats generally are much better without them. There’s certainly way less holes through the deck!
Hi Tom.
My Genoa cars are secured by a bolt, not a spring-pin, so you need a spanner to move them. Bleedin' hassle! My side decks are only about 6" wide too. Definitely going to try this.
Thanks
Nick
Oh that sounds awful. Who designed this? Probably the "previous owner", they always do shit like that haha
But yeah, I get side decks like that, too. Bloody annoying.
My concern would be high loads on my stanchion base, first I'd rebed the base extremely well to aviod introducing deck leaks
Wonderful! As implied in a comment below, you can also dual purpose it for a barber hauler. : )
Make sure your stancion bases are strong enough. By a simple force vector, your hauler load could be close to a sheet load. This, I always called a barber-haul, and can be used in place of a track!
Immediate concern as noted as two others, need to beef up those port and starboard stanchion bases cos it would be a right kerfuffle if one got ripped out of rhe deck at 3am in the pissing rain blowing 35kts....
Hi Tom. I generally do this with a small barton snatch block connected to a line led aft to a spinnaker winch. Seems to work ok but needs to be rigged up. With the low friction ring arrangement does it not get tangled when you tack?
3D sheeting is the way!
Or get your wife to do it , make sure to wear your life jacket when suggesting 😁
That's almost same system that I use. Except I use blocks instead of rings and it's off of a spare track car instead of the base of the stanchion
You've got an extra winch back there. I was out kicking my stuck car in 6' swells couple weeks ago, almost caught myself a bout of seasickness in the process. My solution is even simpler...lube the car, moreover the locking pin. I can't remember what the rigamarol is called, but you can also use your method to get the jib in tighter
Got confused when I read the title of this. I thought Tom was going to talk about improving church roofs...
Why not simply have a line led directly to the Genoa car, and just pull it forward?
You need to rig a permanent tackle to do that. Some yachts have it, but if you don't
What if you then need to tack? Or gybe?
Isn't that a barber hauler?
No, but it's similar. Barber haul brings the lead inboard rather than forward in this case.
Great advice! Also used it o/b HNLMS Urania (you saw her) and it really works very well.
Best, Harry
PS: the Beaulieu was FANTASTIC !
Glad all hands enjoyed the Beaulieu, Harry. one day our tacks will cross again.