[Rhodes22-list] raising mainsail from cockpit

[Jefferson Lewis]

I am looking at ways of raising and lowering the main from the cockpit and
found this post (below) in the archive. Has anyone tried this? The Harken
system refers to sail slugs, and on my 76 R22, the sail goes up a channel in
the mast not with sail slugs and a track. So I'm not sure if this setup will
work without jamming as the sail goes out? Any advice?

Post 
 	
Setting up for single handing

Steve, or anyone else w/ a std main, I am about to run the halyard back to
the cockpit and would like to get any dos/donts from those who have done.

I just finished this project. The following is the way I did it, after all
the false starts.

1. Weld a stainless pad eye to the starboard side of the tabernacle. [If you
use bolts, the heads will rub against the mast and pull the tabernacle out
of the boat as the mast takes the tabernacle with it.]
2. Attach a three [3] sheave bullet block to your pad eye.
3. Install a triple rope clutch to the starboard side of the boat deck
almost as far aft as the bulkhead. Through-bolt it.
4. Using a piece of 1/2 inch Starboard for a pad, through-bolt a triple deck
organizer to the deck.
5. Run your main halyard through the most forward sheave if the triple
bullet block, the most forward sheave of the deck organizer, and finally
through the most starboard opening in the rope clutch.
6. Install your downhaul and run it through the middle sheaves and opening.
7. Install your Harken Single Line Reefing System [track on the port side of
the boom] and use none of the hardware provided for the starboard
installation. Instead run the reefing line from the forward reefing grommet
to the aft sheave in the bullet block, the aft sheave in the deck organizer,
and the port-most opening of the rope clutch.
8. Works like a charm!
Hope this helps,

CPT Richard F. Sheehan
15 Apr 2002



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Jefferson Lewis
SV Patience 1976
Lake Memphremagog, Quebec
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