[Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes

[Rick]

Hi Stan,

Do you have a picture of the "hard wired" outhaul car?  Mine is not fixed
and although I don't vary it to adjust mainsail shape under sail, I find it
handy when furling the main where it is too tight to head upwind for easing
luff pressure.

Rick

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Stan Spitzer <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:

>
> In the humble opinion of the GB engineering department, this system is
> 100% wrong./*
> */
> 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
>
>
>
> **/*
>
> */
> 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
>>
>>
>> -----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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