Rick,
there is a good write up of leading lines aft at
http://www.blumhorst.com/potterpages/linesrunaft.html . Although a
different boat the concept is the same.
I have put on the Dwyer plate organizer on my M-17 as the first step.
Of course when I brought up the old mast step plate a good part of the
outer gel coat came with it. It seemed that there might be some water
intrusion below the plate. I put some west system epoxy to fix the outer
layer of gel coat and also made the holes for the through bolts a bit
wider, filled them with some more of the west system epoxy to seal the
core of the cabin top drilled them out and got some longer bolts to put
it all back. By the way, it took quite a bit to drill the holes through
the Stainless line organizer plate from Dwyer; but this is an area I am
ignorant of so I probably was doing it the hard way (as ever). Used up
a few bits.
The next step is the costly one where line clutches are required. I
have other corrections/projects to do before buying the clutches. And
then I figure roller furling as well. As near as I can tell, unless you
are a supreme sailor like D Kelch (whom I have seen dancing about the
fore deck while single handing and still under way) the approach for
head sails is roller furling.
Robbin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
During the long winter evenings I have been thinking about modifying my M-17
standard rig to lead both halyards and a reefing line to sheetstoppers (main
halyard and reefing line to starboard, jib halyard to port) on the cabin near
the cockpit, and being new both to the boat and to single-handing would
appreciate any advice from old hands who have been there and done that. For
example, the cabin dome light is right below the starboard base of the mast and seems
to get in the way of mounting turning blocks, and there is very little space
around the forward end of the teak trim beside the hatch for mounting cheek
blocks to turn the lines toward the cockpit.
I have also wondered if there are any tricks to changing headsails when
single-handing to minimize the chances of water-testing my Type V PFD.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
Rick
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