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yeah, between that, 50 turns for the centerboard, the mizzen, my boat gives you a work out. 
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If it weren't that I could set the main and mizzen to self tend, I couldn't do any short tacking single handed. Just wrestling the 130% across the decks is all I can muster short tacking into something like nearby Pulpit Harbor. I think we've made the best improvements to sailboat design in the actual sail handling, since our boats were designed. Newer boats take less effort to sail.
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- I have to install jiffy reefing on my boom.
- Have the sailmaker add blocks to the sail
- My sailmaker installed "floppy rings" at the reef tacks
- That might work, Tom, but ...
- My suggestions...
- Why would you own an old boat just to gob it up with modern looking stuff?
- Grin - with you there. All my halyards, and the mainsheet, are 3 strd Dacron
- I'd like to replace this Shaefer fiddle block.
- for sure on the light- pretty. Ours aren't so classic
- Tom, do you have any images of your mainsheet rigging at deck level?
- Not a good one but here's how it runs.
- Thanks, Tom
- yeah, between that, 50 turns for the centerboard, the mizzen, my boat gives you a work out.
- LOL! One way to ease your pain...
- yeah, between that, 50 turns for the centerboard, the mizzen, my boat gives you a work out.
- Thanks, Tom
- Not a good one but here's how it runs.
- for sure on the light- pretty. Ours aren't so classic
- I'd like to replace this Shaefer fiddle block.
- I think what you need to do
- Grin - with you there. All my halyards, and the mainsheet, are 3 strd Dacron
- Why would you own an old boat just to gob it up with modern looking stuff?
- Paul's system will work; or,
- I like the floppy rings plus...
- From the picture