[Rhodes22-list] New Genny - Was Bullshit

[Steve Alm]

Rummy and Ed,
I do have shroud covers and I do not have a big knot(s) where sheet ties to
clew.  I use one long continuous line, cow-hitched on the clew.  I think
that the shroud covers simply do not alleviate enough friction for the sail
to glide over them.  They're not really "rollers" as Ed refers to.  In fact,
they probably don't roll much at all.  I don't think I should have to add
more moving parts.  When tacking in light air, the big heavy jib lies across
the shrouds and mast like a big heavy blanket.  It's not necessarily getting
hooked on anything in particular.  The shrouds, mast, maybe the sheets are
wet adding more weight, altogether create enough friction to hamper the
tack.  This only happens in very light air with the 175 fully deployed.
It's not every time, though.  Often, it goes across fine.  But I'm really
quite surprised that you and Bill have never had this happen.
Slim

On 3/15/04 5:29 AM, "R22RumRunner at aol.com" <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:

> Slim,
> If your 175 is getting hung up, you need to resolve this problem. The only
> place that it could hang is on the shrouds. A good and properly sized shroud
> cover will take care of this and I'm not talking about the thin wrap around
> plastic covers.
> Take a look at the pictures of my rigging and you'll see that I have large
> PVC covers that act as large rollers. I never have any hang problems, even in
> lite air.....the sail goes through with little effort.
> Another problem I've seen is that some owners actually have to two separate
> lines going to the clew instead of one line with a knot. Two lines, two knots
> makes for a problem and something else to hang up..Rhodes Rigging
> 
> Rummy
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