Downeaster Yachts.com - Topic: Some Rig Questions http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/some-rig-questions Simple:Press Version 5.6.7 Scott Carle on Some Rig Questions http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/some-rig-questions#p2284 Sails and Rigging- Standing and Running http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/some-rig-questions#p2284 Yes your boat has been modified to a mid boom main sheet. My boat is still stock and the main sheet is off the end of the boom and goes to a traveler at the  very aft end of the cockpit up against the transom. I think yours is a better arrangement by far.not sure what size the line on the one in your cockpit is but my mainsheet was about 100 to 120 ft long and 1/2 inch thick. I recently re-did it and it is now 3/8 and the same length out of a stronger synthetic. Haven't used it since I changed it so will have to let everyone know how it works after that happens.

 

If the spinnaker is an equilateral triangle then you should have a spinnaker pole if it is asymmetric triangle all three side different lengths then it should be an asymmetric spinnaker which I would prefer as it is easier to use by far even if not quite as efficient at some wind angles. I think you gain a couple a hundred percent in usability for cruising vs the small percentage loss of efficiency of using it with a pole. Not to say you can't use a pole with it 🙂 but it makes it much easier to control having two corners fixed in place so that all your controlling is the one sheet rather than two and a pole.

 

Second stay sail? is it thicker material? is it the same dimensions as your current stay sail? could it be a storm try-sail? Possibly it is just a spare, or it could be a heavier storm stay sail or if lighter a lighter stay sail for lighter wind.

]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:13:39 -0400 Patrick Twohig on Some Rig Questions http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/some-rig-questions#p2283 Sails and Rigging- Standing and Running http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/some-rig-questions#p2283 This may sound like an incredibly dumb question.  When I bought the boat, the broker told me that the mainsheet was moved amidships and the line was run through the dodger to the cockpit.  In the rig diagrams it's in the aftmost portion of the cockpit, and that line isn't present at all.  I've added a picture of mine, that's what I was told the mainsheet was.  I'm assuming that perhaps the boat was modified at some point because the blocks are newer Harken blocks and don't match the teak ones on the staysail.

 

I also found a set of lines and what appears to be a mainsheet assembly in the lazarette but the line seems to be a bit undersized for the size of boat.  Too   However, I don't know what else that would be used for.  I also found dingy davits (which weren't installed) so I thought it may have been used to hoist the dingy up out of the water.

 

I also found a spinnaker and second staysail.  I have no idea what that second staysail is for, or how to use the spinnaker.  I don't see a pole anywhere, so I'm assuming it's an asymmetric spinnaker.  Am I correct with my understanding?

 

Picutre of Boat: http://i.imgur.com/3Vm82JP.jpg

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