[Rhodes22-list] Windward sheeting traveler(Graham)

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Joe:
Thanks for the response but my question wasn't clear. My traveller is not attached to the back stays at all. I was wondering what is needed to attach it there. I was wondering if I might take the track, attach it to a stainless steel tube and then work out some way to attach the traveller to the back stays. How are they attached now?

Graham Stewart
Agile. R22, 1976
Kingston Ontario Canada




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Graham:
     The changeover is best made while your boat is resting up from a long season of sailing.  I took the existing traveler off and sent it to Stanville. There the General Boats craftsmen transformed it into the new version and sent it home again, where I tucked it away till sailing season then reinstalled it exactly like the old one. Then, "plop, plop - fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is," (AlkaSeltzer). 

     Moving the main from side to side in order to sail closer to the wind is a breeze (pun always intended). The boom will stay right where you put it.  I like to experiment with it, play around.  Hey, you're sitting on your ass anyway. Why not use the time to become friendlier with your boat, the wind and wonderful combination these two things produce: you as a sailor.  Ready about!  Hard to lee!
Joe Camp
Looking for a Pulitzer Prize

 
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Joe: 
What is involved in retrofitting the mew traveller to a boat that had the old standard deck-mounted traveller? I have the split back stay.
Thanks,

Graham Stewart
Agile. R22, 1976
Kingston Ontario Canada




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To the traveller troubled:

    Stan's new traveller design makes this operation a breeze and gives this amazing boat another card up its sleeve. (That's a metaphorical sleeve; boats don't have jackets with sleeves)  I find myself using it all of the time, compared to the old traveller, which I avoided unwrapping at all. My best advice is to buy this item... Spend some money at GBI and get Stan out of the natural food store and back into the business of building superior sailboats. (By the way, Stan does have sleeves, and they're loaded with surprise cards.)

Joe Camp
s/v John Dawson
Bohemnia River, MD

 
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I don't understand your complaint. Mine and everyone I've seen sheet to windward.

Rick

Regards,

Rick

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:17 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List < rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:

> After many years of racing (and losing), hardware that I relied on and 
> would still enjoy using is a windward sheeting traveler. Perhaps in 
> the Rhodes 22 the stainless tube that connects the traveler and 
> backstay lines would need to be replaced with a custom bar that could 
> accommodate the ws traveler and backstays. I don't know.  In a 
> cruising boat it may be unnecessary fluff. Nonetheless, reaching to 
> adjust the traveler in both a breeze and a calm is a bit inefficient, I think. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Jay Marshall Weiss
> Hanali R22
> Poughkeepsie, NY
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