Posted by lance_ryley (lance_ryley@…>)
I’d like to get some feedback (and photos if possible) from ‘classic’
cat ketch owners about how they’ve run their lines from the main back.
I know I have a lot of resistance in the system, partially because we
generally carry the rhib under the main boom. the rhib is a little too
big, so it binds the lines on the port side. the PO solved this with a
length of pvc tubing for the dinghy to rest on, but this seems somehow
inelegant. Open to suggestions…
Lance
Posted by Michel Capel (mike_c_f35ck@…>)
Lance,
On my previous boat (I can now say…) an F33/35 CK, I tried to
minimise the turns the lines have to make. For this, I replaced
several eye fairleads with roller disks because they had no ‘fair
lead’. Some deckeyes I moved to a better location. I also changed
several blocks to larger diameter bearing blocks, especially the
masttop halyard block and the mast base turning blocks. What also
could help, is putting a block in the reef cringles, instead of
feeding the reef lines directly through the eyes.
regards,
Michel
— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, “lance_ryley”
<lance_ryley@…> wrote:
I’d like to get some feedback (and photos if possible)
from ‘classic’
cat ketch owners about how they’ve run their lines from the main
back.
I know I have a lot of resistance in the system, partially because
we
generally carry the rhib under the main boom. the rhib is a little
too
big, so it binds the lines on the port side. the PO solved this
with a
length of pvc tubing for the dinghy to rest on, but this seems
somehow
inelegant. Open to suggestions…
Lance