You're on the right track. Always make things easier for your crew and you will keep them comin back. Maybe let her steer? I find steering is the easiest task on the boat and sail trim the most demanding. It takes a while to convince new crew how easy it is, but once she gets a feel for it, you will have placed her 120 pounds where it can do the most good, and leave you to pull all the strings you want; drop the traveller and trim the mainsheet, adjust the outhaul, cunningham and vang. If you can get the boat balanced to where she feels the difference in the helm, she'll understand why we adjust things.
I find 12 knots is a wind threshold that divides the crew into smiles or grimmaces. It's a good wind to practice reefing the main, and you may find the boat or crew likes that better? I went for a sail recently with 12 knots blowing and had my son and two newbies along who had never ever been on a sailboat. I never unfurled the genny because we were powered up with just the main doing 6 plus knots in any direction. It was a beautiful day and we shaddowed another boat for about 30 minutes taking pictures of each other. One newbie loved it and jumped at the chance to steer. The other one turned down that chance, and started to look green, so we had to head in. I remember seeing a mainsheet system that incorporated a jam cleat at the traveller car, and the other end was lead to the mast, down and back to a clutch and to a winch. So quick light wind adjusments could be done by hand and a winch could used when that line got loaded up. Check harken.com Disclaimer: I have 6:1 on my end boom main sheet with 24:1 fine tune. It allows me to adjust things from the helm. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Plavsa" <stevanpla...@gmail.com> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 11:33:35 AM Subject: Stus-List Cabin top traveler and mainsheet setup Hi All, Newish owner of a C&C 32 and I've been wondering about my mainsheet arrangement lately. Seems I don't have enough purchase, the winch is always required and this is the only boat I've ever been on that the winch is required to handle the main, maybe this is a normal thing, I don't know because I'm not that experienced and this is also the only boat I've ever been on with a cabin top traveler. You can see my arrangement here: http://newimages.yachtworld.com/resize/1/82/59/3648259_0_20110606112912_4_0.jpg?f=/1/82/59/3648259_0_20110606112912_4_0.jpg&w=600&h=450&t=1317658943000 That is not my boat, just another C&C 32 I found on yachtworld but the setup is the same except that i have the added complexity of a dodger. What are my options to make sheeting the main easier on my crew? Right now it's a PITA so the crew is reluctant to make minor adjustments in sail trim which annoys me but i kind of understand .. especially when it's blowing 15+, the winch is a one speed non tailer and the crew is generally my 120lb girlfriend :) scenario: "ease the main" "don't make me ease the main if you're just going to get me to harden it again" "baby, just ease it until it luffs and then bring it in a touch" Five minutes later I have nearly the correct sail trim. Is the winch always going to be necessary or can I add some tackle and route the line somehow so that it's easier and more accessible? I come from a Mirage 24 that had a bridgedeck mounted traveller and the main sheet on that was a piece of cake, one hand on the tiller, the other on the sheet. I'm not expecting that kind of setup due to the location of the traveler but surely there is a better way. Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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