[Rhodes22-list] Captain Kuhn, a reply

[Steven Alm]

Lee,

I should have read further.  I didn't know you have the batten mail.  If
that's the case, then you wouldn't have a leech line on the mail but you
probably do have one on the jib.  Foot line too--maybe.

Slim

On 9/24/07, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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