[Rhodes22-list] Sailing right angles - traveller location

[Curtis Ruck]

Graham,

I don't know how it will work, but a previous owner put the rail there,
though they didn't leave the car.  It has to be better than my rope
traveler, and I'd love one of the Stan's new travelers, but getting one
isn't in the cards right now.

My thinking is that having the windward sheeting car will make it very easy
to control the main, and provide a vang like pull down, at least when close
hauled.  Currently with the POS the rope traveler I can't get the boom to
stay at the centerline, much less crossing the centerline.

- Curtis
s/v Ruck It
Havre de Grace, MD

P.S. love the fact I don't have to remember to sign my posts.


On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:18 PM Graham Stewart <gstewart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> Curtis:
>
> I am interested in your comment about locating your traveller to just aft
> of
> the cabin rather than having it located on the back stays. In my rebuild I
> will need to decide where to place the traveller and would like to know
> what
> you and others think the pros and cons are for various locations.
>
> Before the rebuild I installed the traveller just in front of the
> lazarette.
> That gave good purchase but the mainsheet was often in the way of the
> tiller
> and was generally awkward to handle. I wonder how well the traveller works
> when it is located way back on the aft stays as there would not be much
> downward force to flatten the mainsail.
>
> To move it up to the cabin might be a good location but I expect that the
> blocks would need to be beefed up on the mainsheet.
>
> Has anyone else located their traveller to aft of the cabin or have tried
> various locations and if so what advice might you offer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham Stewart
> Agile. R22, 1976
> Kingston Ontario Canada
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf
> Of
> Curtis Ruck via Rhodes22-list
> Sent: June 6, 2016 6:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Sailing right angles
>
> Rick,
>
> How do you perform in less than perfect conditions with your headsail?  I
> race weekly (for recreational, not competitive reasons, and come in last
> even with a ~270 PHRF).  In my typical air, I have 3-5 knots with 1/2 - 1
> knot current (Susquehanna River mouth).
>
> I single hand and at best I can get 110 tack angle with the 170.  It
> doesn't
> change any with rolling the head up some and running the jib sheets inside
> the outer shrouds.
>
> My current plan is to move from the rope traveler between the backstays to
> a
> rail behind the cabin (the rail was installed by a previous owner, but
> didn't provide the traveler system, of which mine just arrived in the
> mail).
> And as soon as fiscally possible move to a 130.
>
> The only place I even get close to keeping up is downwind wing-on-wing
> legs,
> but the club doesn't race non-spin boats straight downwind so... I'm always
> well behind.  In the below race, I was lapped before I even made it around
> the northern mark.
>
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