[Rhodes22-list] [Rhodes22e-list] New Traveler Modifications

[ROGER PIHLAJA]

Rick,

When you ease the traveler, the end of the boom does not rise as it does when you ease the mainsheet.  Thus the mainsail shape is affected much less when you ease the traveler vs the mainsheet.  When you trim the traveler back to where it was, the flow reattaches itself much quicker.  Overall, boat speed stays higher.  That’s why you play the traveler much more than the mainsheet.

Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynamic Equilibrium 
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> On Mar 24, 2021, at 11:25 AM, Rick Lange <sloopblueheron at gmail.com>Trim the trawrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> Why the traveller?  The sheet is so much faster and gives greater range of
> boom movement.
> 
> Rick Lange
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 9:13 AM JeffSmith <jeffsmithphoto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> When sailing to weather I like to play the traveler (as opposed to the main
>> sheet) in the puffs while sitting on the high side cockpit combing with the
>> hiking stick.
>> A continuous 5mm line with the core removed where it travels through the
>> blocks on the New Traveler and possibly changing the purchase from 5 to 1
>> to
>> 3 to 1 is part of my plan. Before holes are drilled in the cockpit sides to
>> accomodate turning blocks to lead the continuous line forward around the
>> perimeter of the cockpit, I would welcome input.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> Jeff Smith
>> 2009 R22 #101 RADIANT
>> Atlantic Highlands Municpal Harbor
>> Atlantic Highlands, NJ
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