Christian, Our 88 M-15 had 2 lines that ran along the port side from the bow to the cockpit. One line was a jib downhaul. The 2nd line was for reefing the jib.
The factory 110 jib had the ability to be reef'd. The 2nd line ran from the cockpit - along the port side of the deck - up to the bow - followed the forestay up a couple of feet to a grommet in the leading edge of the jib. By releasing the jib halyard and pulling this line you could pull the jib down a couple of feet from the cockpit. You could then reach forward from the companion way and re-attach the jib sheets to a 2nd reef grommet as well. If conditions allowed, you could also go forward and tie-in the extra sail. Or, tie it in before you head out. Or, just sail with the extra cloth on deck (what we generally did). The system worked pretty good! Randy Graves M17 #410 From: Steve R. Sent: Sun 1/14/2007 7:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: M_Boats: (no subject) Hi Christian, My guess is Little Wing is rigged with a wire luff jib, rather than, a hanked on jib. The second line is the tack line. By releasing the tack line and halyard the jib may be pulled back to the cockpit by the sheets. I have seen Potters rigged in this fashion but I do not recall anyone on the list commenting about rigging their Montgomery in that fashion. It would keep you off the pointy end of the boat during sail changes without resorting to roller furling. When I reach the point of needing new sails this is something I will consider. Welcome to the list. I started off bigger and went smaller, although I take a long look at larger boats from time to time. steve Steve R. M-15 #119 Lexingotn, KY Christian wrote: <...> It had two lines that are running from the bow that appears to be a jib down haul running to the cockpit. I understand one of the lines would pull the jib down my question is what does the other line do? <...> _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
