Hi all,
I spent the afternoon re-rigging Pocketship. Toping lift, new home-made roller furler, replacing some of my SS blocks with brass, etc. The wind started picking up and the trailer started really rocking with the main and jib out. I started having terrible visions of Pocketship tipped on her side and the mast snapped in two on my neighbor's roof. High time to install jiffy reefing. Source: http://www.catalina22experiment.com/hom ... ing-system
My changes:
The regular outhaul system is per the manual: a line dead-ended in an eyestrap at the end of the boom, then through the clew cringle, through a cheek block on the other side of the boom, then terminated at a jam cleat midway down the boom.
The jiffy reefing setup starts at an eye-strap on the same side of the boom as the cheek block. A new outhaul line runs up to the reef point cringle, then down to a new cheek block on the other side of the boom, then down the entire length of the boom to an eyestrap right at the gooseneck, then up to the reef point cringle, then down the other side of the sail to a cleat on the tabernacle. That last eyestrap should really be a cheek block, but I didn't have an extra one. To reef, lower the peak and throat halyards a bit, then tug really hard on the reefing line. Because I don't have that second cheek block, there is a lot of friction in the system, so I had to pull hard on the line running along the boom, and not just at the end of the line. Anyway, the line will pull the clew out like an outhaul, and the tack down at the same time. Reset the peak halyard to the proper tension.
I haven't tried this on the water but didn't have any issues "land sailing".