[Rhodes22-list] Raven's outhaul sketch.pdf

[Peter Thorn]

Yeah Bill, you've got it.  Also to mention the clam cleat is simpler and
works very well.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Raven's outhaul sketch.pdf


> Peter,
>
> Thanks, 135 emails behind and trying to catch up.
>
> Let me see if I've got this right:  the bitter end of the outhaul line
> is attached to the forward end of the car, goes around a block at the
> clew, comes back under the block on the car, and then down through the
boom?
>
> It looks good on paper, you say it works, it's not the way mine was
> rigged, but if I've got it right, I'll try it next chance I get.
>
> Bill Effros
>
> Peter Thorn wrote:
> > Bill,
> >
> > Raven's outhaul work's great and does not use a cam cleat.  Instead
there's
> > a clam cleat on the bottom of the boom.  The line is rigged 2:1 -- see
the
> > attached sketch.  I'm not sure if this is Stan's design/intention, but
it
> > certainly works nicely this way.  You can adjust the car fore and aft to
> > control/set the main clew line angle for good shape at an infinite
number of
> > reefing points.
> >
> > PT
> >
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