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Look! No twist!
Posted on September 2nd, 2007 No commentsOk, so Cia and the kids had to stay home since Cia was to leave for Rotterdam. But Ricard and I anchoring out for the night and everything went great. We even managed to borrow some charts for the area about half way there from Ricards mother and Göran who surprised us with their motor boat.
We were quite proud tacking up into the small cove, where we decided to anchor for the night. The junk rig is sweet that way, you just reef down a couple of panels and everything just goes slower. Too bad we had to start the engine to reset the anchor.
Cooked some lamb for a great dinner. Next morning we wished for bow rollers, while hauling the 45 lb CQR and 11 mm chain up by hand.
We managed to take away most of the twist in the sail by re-reaving the sheet:
Especially it is better when reefed than before. I have some more ideas about how to improve the sheet. Pic by Göran.Next day I was a bit tired, since I just had to go look every hour if the anchor was holding. We sailed up to Göran and Eva’s place and were treated with fresh crayfish for lunch:
This is how we moor in Sweden in calm weather. No tide here in the Baltic.One more photo of the boat by Göran:
4 responses to “Look! No twist!”
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Matti–
I’m glad you had a great weekend sail. Thanks also for this blog. Every time you make an addition it inspires me more! Great photos!!!Neil
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Matti,
I just can’t say enough how beautiful your boat is. You and Celia really have something to be proud of.
/Jason
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Gene Smith September 9th, 2007 at 07:45
Hi Matti,
When you rereaved the sheet, what did you change it from and to exactly.
Thank you.
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Well, I hope you can follow this explanation:
Before I made the change, the sheet started at the top sheeted batten, went down to the tripple deck block, up to a sheetlet that connected the next two battens, down to the deck block and up to a sheetlet that connected the lowest two battens and down to deck, with the sheeting end. This way every batten had one part of the sheet, so the upper battens were not pulled in as much as the lower ones due to different angles.
Now the sheet starts at a sheetlet connecting the two lower battens (so these get half a part each). It goes down to the deck block, up to a block connecting the two middle battens (so they get one part each). It goes down to the deck block and up to a block connected to the uppermost sheeted batten (so this batten gets two parts) and down to the deck block with the sheeted end. So this way the lowest battens get half the pull of the middle battens and these gets half the pull of the uppermost batten.
It seems acceptable this way, but we will tweak things later on.
/m
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Neil September 3rd, 2007 at 02:33