[Rhodes22-list] Windward sheeting traveler

[The Rhodes 22 Email List]

Rick
This sounds interesting. You have any photos?

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Charles Nieman


> On Oct 3, 2015, at 2:00 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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