[Rhodes22-list] Windward sheeting traveler

[The Rhodes 22 Email List]

I did the same thing and also replaced the jam cleats with cam cleats to
more easily and reliably hold the car at any point along the traveler.

Rick

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 2:29 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <
rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:

> On the other hand after a couple of years, we
> stopped wrapping the two ends around the bar and
> tied them to each other. It's not quite a
> continuous line but works similarly. It's not as neat looking.
>
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
>
>
> At 01:22 PM 10/3/2015, you wrote:
> >To the traveller troubled: Â Â Â Â  Stan's new
> >traveller design makes this operation a breeze
> >and gives this amazing boat another card up its
> >sleeve. (That's a metaphorical sleeve; boats
> >don't have jackets with sleeves)Â  I find myself
> >using it all of the time, compared to the old
> >traveller, which I avoided unwrapping at all. My
> >best advice is to buy this item... Spend some
> >money at GBI and get Stan out of the natural
> >food store and back into the business of
> >building superior sailboats. (By the way, Stan
> >does have sleeves, and they're loaded with
> >surprise cards.) Joe Camp s/v John Dawson
> >Bohemnia River, MD       From: The Rhodes 22
> >Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> To: The
> >Rhodes 22 Email List
> ><rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> Sent: Friday,
> >October 2, 2015 4:49 PM Subject: Re:
> >[Rhodes22-list] Windward sheeting traveler    I
> >don't understand your complaint. Mine and
> >everyone I've seen sheet to windward. Rick
> >Regards, Rick On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:17 PM,
> >The Rhodes 22 Email List <
> >rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote: > After many
> >years of racing (and losing), hardware that I
> >relied on and > would still enjoy using is a
> >windward sheeting traveler. Perhaps in the >
> >Rhodes 22 the stainless tube that connects the
> >traveler and backstay lines > would need to be
> >replaced with a custom bar that could
> >accommodate the > ws traveler and backstays. I
> >don't know.  In a cruising boat it may be >
> >unnecessary fluff. Nonetheless, reaching to
> >adjust the traveler in both a > breeze and a
> >calm is a bit inefficient, I think. Any
> >ideas? > > -- > Jay Marshall Weiss > Hanali
> >R22 > Poughkeepsie, NY >
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