[Rhodes22-list] UPS arrived yesterday

[Jay Friedland]

Mark,
Thanks for your response. I was planning to launch today, but winds are 
15-20 and 35, so consider me a fair weather sailor. Tomorrow is 
forecasted into the high 50's with lighter winds.

I had a concern and was wondering why I never heard it discussed on the 
list. How much pull is on the halyard with a spin under sail? From what 
I've seen of installations, it means running the halyard from the mast 
through a standard deck block to the cockpit for cleating. This seems 
to be the weakest link.

  The deck block, typically a small Ronstan spring-loaded type, doesn't 
seem beefy enough, or well-anchored or well-positioned enough, to take 
any heavy pull from the halyard. Is this what you're using or similar? 
Is a padeye mounted at the base of the mast to provide a direct pull 
down more effective? Any way of through-bolting a block to the cabin 
top? Is any of this necesary? Just very curious on what you feel is 
needed.

Thnaks,
Jay

On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 09:42 AM, Mark Kaynor wrote:

> Jay,
>
> Raven already had a padeye installed in the deck just aft of the 
> furler when
> we bought her. It's got 4 bolts and a backing plate and sounds like the
> Schaeffer you describe - I'll see if I can find any identifier on it 
> today
> and will let you know. I mounted a halyard restrainer on the mast 
> about a
> foot down from the masthead. We've got blocks w/ snap shackles that we
> attach to the aft cleats for the asymmetric sheets. I won't know if 
> we'll
> use those or the standard jib sheet setup until we mess around w/ it a 
> bit
> and see what works best.
>
> Gary (Raven's PO) had bolted a bail w/ a small block to the front of 
> the
> masthead for the asymmetric halyard. Because the UPS is rigged inside 
> the
> headstay, rather than outside like the asymmetric, we routed the 
> halyard
> through the sstarboard set of masthead blocks. Our topping lift runs 
> through
> the port set.
>
> Mark
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Friedland" <a.jayf at verizon.net>
> To: <kroposki at innova.net>; "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 8:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] UPS arrived yesterday
>
>
>> Mark,
>> Did you use same padeye/halyard set-up you had for your previous
>> cruising spinnaker? Once the mast is up, it's done-launch is next
>> Friday.  Any last minute suggestions on hardware? I'm using the
>> Schaeffer padeye (4 screws/backing plate) Roger suggested, halyard
>> restrainer 6" down from sheaves, and fixed topping lift with line to
>> boom-mounted cleat, standard Jib cars. Thanks for any input.
>> Jay
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 07:43 AM, Kroposki wrote:
>>
>>> Mark,
>>> The weather is supposed to be perfect..... _) _) _)
>>>                   Ed K
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mark Kaynor [mailto:mark at kaynor.org]
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 5:27 AM
>>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] UPS arrived yesterday
>>>
>>> Our new UPS sail arrived yesterday. Woohoo!! We'll be setting it up 
>>> and
>>> trying it out later today, weather permitting. I'll bring the camera
>>> and
>>> see if I can get someone to take a few pics to post. We unfolded it 
>>> in
>>> the living room last night to check it out - it's a big sail. It's 
>>> also
>>> very pretty. And it smells new <g>. We're excited.
>>>
>>> Mark Kaynor
>>>
>>
>