[Rhodes22-list] Captain Kuhn, a reply

[Steven Alm]

Lee and Ed,

The leech lines and foot line on my sails have a little plastic "cleat"
right there where it comes out of the sail.  You pull the line tight and
just jam it back into the cleat.  I use them in very light air.  They give
the sail a little more baggy shape.

Slim

On 9/23/07, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> Lee said, "So what the heck is that hangy down cord?  Some mainsails have
> a
> leech
> line/cord you can use to tighten the leech.  Is this a foot cord? "
>
> Yes, I think the correct terminology is foot line.  It appears to be a
> relative of the Leech Line and Luff Line.  Now if you can find good
> directions for their uses, and not he said she said, please post
> same.  Also
> if you can find pictures of how to fasten or tighten and fasten please
> post.
>
> The best that I can find is tie them off to the nearest grommet.  But what
> kind of knot or device is the best to do so?
>
> I can find that on a main sail the leech line is use to control flutter,
> but
> cannot find how to use foot lines in any of my books on sails and sail
> techniques.
>
> Lee, now it is your turn.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
> strong
> man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The
> credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
> marred
> by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes
> short
> again and again; because there is not effort without error and
> shortcomings;
> but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great
> enthusiasm,
> the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best
> knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if
> he
> fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall
> never
> be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
> Theodore Roosevelt
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