[Rhodes22-list] Boom Vang for the R22

[The Rhodes 22 Email List]

Unless you're wing on wing. 

Cheers,
Ted

S/V AIRPOWER 
1991/2013 R22
Jacksonville, FL



> On Jun 5, 2015, at 3:18 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> 
> You want a cupped, not a flat mainsail running downwind.  The mainsheet,
> wrapped around a midboom cleat, then tied off to the inner jib sheet track
> ring or the cabin top grab rail, will hold the boom down enough.  The jenny
> is your power sail downwind and your mainsail mainly directs wind into the
> jenny.
> 
> Rick
> 
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:52 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <
> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> 
>> A Boom Vang would help immensely.
>> Downwind, the boom has little control without rigging a preventer or vang.
>> To keep the boom roughly horizontal, it must be held down (or pushed down)
>> in the case of this new idea.
>> It looks expensive and I didn’t see any pricing, but this could work for a
>> pop-top up scenario, especially if a Cunningham were rigged as well.
>> On the other hand, if performance is your goal, the pop-top should be down
>> anyway.
>> The IFM system may not be compatible wit hit, I have a standard rig.
>> Ric
>> Dadventure.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 4, 2015, at 12:00 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <
>> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> With the end-boom sheeting of the R22, I don't think there is much a vang
>>> can improve upon.
>>> 
>>> Rick
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <
>>> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> There has been quite a lot of discussion in the pass bemoaning the lack
>> of
>>>> a
>>>> vang on the Rhodes 22. You either have a vang and no pop-top or you have
>>>> the
>>>> pop-top...
>>>> 
>>>> Check out this GNAV system. Here's a solution that I would be
>> interested in
>>>> hearing some comments from you old salts
>>>> 
>>>> file:///C:/Users/beytagh/Downloads/excerpts-595-950-E-52.pdf
>>>> 
>>>> Richard
>>>> S.V Waif
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----
>>>> Richard Beytagh
>>>> R22 1984
>>>> s/v Waif
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>> Richard F. Stott, AIA, LEED AP
>> ric at stottarchitecture.com
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