[Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes

[Mark Olson]

I tried using the old one a couple times and finally just left it in the 
middle.

I just installed my new traveler and used it for the first time yesterday. 
Had a nice sail on the Tappan Zee section of the Hudson River north of 
Nyack.  We had a beautiful run downwind then had to tack into 10 to 12 knot 
winds to get back to the mooring.  I ran the helm and repositioned the 
traveler on tacks.  My sailing partner took care of the jib.  Using the 
traveler to increase the pointing saved us at least 2 if not 4 tacks and got 
us back before dark.

Mark Olson
1983 - Satchmo

-----Original Message----- 
From: Stan Spitzer
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:25 AM
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes


In the humble opinion of the GB engineering department, this system is
100% wrong./*
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One of the advantages of a loose footed sail is the ease and degree of
draft setting it allows. However you do not want drat setting to take
the sail out of its being in the same plane as its boom.  To do so would
depreciate the value of the traveler in pointing. Therefore setting up
the connection of the main sail to the out-haul car so this distance
from said car to the sail is variable, is undesirable.

With the GB system the sail is "hard wired" (is fixed) to the out-haul
car so that no matter what draft is set in the sail by your positioning
of the out-haul car, the sail remains in the same plane as the boom.
This makes the traveler a much more efficient aid in pointing ability.

The GB new traveler system invention, with its single endless push or
pull control line that requires no cleating, therefor allowing for
comfortable use of the traveler regardless of the captain's preferred
port or starboard perch, encourages the use of a traveler for so much
better sailing performance.

A valuable upgrading for any Rhodes not already having a GBTSI: $495 for
non C of S community members.  $395 for C of S sailors.

stan



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On 10/23/17 4:52 PM, Lowe, Rob wrote:
> JD,
> Found this diagram posted a few years ago.  Typical outhaul arrangement. 
> See if this helps any. - rob
>
> http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20100517/e3dd3576/attachment.pdf
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf 
> Of JD
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 4:16 PM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes
>
> That helps more than you know .....thanks Rick......now another question 
> if you don't mind .....the cam cleat that your main sheet is connected to 
> , that you use to set your sail position, what is considered the right 
> side up , the cleat on bottom or top........thanks
>
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