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• Mainsail rigging suggestions sought.
  • I'm old fashioned
  • There is a Westsail Owners Association...
    • i know about the westsail group
      • Rich -- Talk to a boom manufacturer before you try to do a midsheeted boom on your Westsail 32.
      • I have mid boom sheeting and like it for a
  • Having bought a new main last season, I'm still sorting these questions out.
    • I'm in Tom's camp - I think?
  • Well, I think with the Westsail 32, Bill C would probably have had it right when he designed-it...
  • Have a friend with a 27 footer with a main like that. In a word, it sux. MUCH smaller sail
  • My Westsail 32 had a traveller and mid-boom sheeting
    • thanks everyone. Max, that was what I was talking about with Bud Taplin
    • Used boom
      • End sheeting it, but running the line to the mast, then back under the dodger is a neat idea. However,
  • You know, I'm seriously looking at adding lazy jacks to my 25 footer
    • It's if they hadn't called the 'Lazy Jacks', maybe you wouldn't be so ah-hum about them. ;^)))
      • Maybe so. But when John Welsford, Michael Storer, Richard Woods, Jim Michalak and Matt Layden
    • We have similar low aspect mains. Here's my mistakes for you.
      • FWIW some dimensions we found to work.
      • Dinghy blocks are better than fairleads
        • These would be mounted in the spreader edges.
          • I don't see a downside
            • Good thought. I've gotten used to leading the jacks to the mast.
              • Another way to avoid slapping lazy jacks
                • That's a good idea. Thxs.