David your statement of my whole setup is correct. It is a spliced eye with no thimble. The hook fits tight in the eye splice to avoid inadvertent disengagement when the cunningham is softened or while the sail is not at full height (reefed or down completely). When I reef I typically don't use the cunningham. I have "dogbones" in my mainsail to facilitate hooking the horn. If I really wanted to it would be easy to unhook the cunningham and attach it to the opposite (unhooked) side of the dogbone.
I find that light air sailing which allows for a full main is where the cunningham really shines. The sail shape is much more critical and capitalizing on every adjustment is much more evident. Upwind harden up on the luff with the cunningham, downwind soften the luff. In heavy air and a reefed main the options change. When setting the reef make sure the halyard is tightened properly. Upwind look for softness in the luff and tighten with halyard as needed. Downwind, leave the sail set in preps for your next upwind run or shake the reef. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On May 24, 2017 1:37 PM, "David Knecht via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: Hi Josh- I have a similar rig, but the reefing hook is attached directly to the luff cringle. I considered adding another 2:1 but I want to clarify how your pennant is rigged. It looks like it is attached to the tack pin, then up to the cringle and then down to a spliced loop for the reefing hook? Spliced loop or a metal thimble? The reason I did not do that was I was not sure how I would deal with reefing. If I reef the main, I just put the hook in the next cringle. What do you do? Dave On May 19, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Josh Muckley via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: Check out these pictures. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pEh5lnvP1yX3hxVGZGNmNnLU0 I looked at the cunninham again and decided that it is a 4 to 1. It pulls on the pennant. It's hard to tell where the pennant goes since it dives up under the sail pack. I tried to show how it attaches with the tack pin on the other side of main after passing through the reef cringle. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD Aries 1990 C&C 34+ New London, CT _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you wish to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: https://www.paypal.me/stumurray All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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