[Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes

Tue Oct 24 15:05:20 EDT 2017

Graham
I didn’t need to make any changes to the backstays. They had a swage on each side that held a small piece of 1/8” cable for the turning blocks on the old rope style traveller. 
The swages prevent the traveler from sliding skyward. 
I simply added the new attachments I had machined, slipped the new traveler bar into them and drilled a new hole in the attachment using the holes provided in the traveler bar as guides. 
I still have a set of connectors that I think I offered you once. 
I have attached a drawing of the Delrin fabrication and a photo of the finished installation. 
Note: 
The hole size for the backstay is incorrect - the fabricator knew exactly what to do, but I think it is one drill some smaller than the the backstay did. 
It works beautifully - I can pull the tethered pin and swing either side of the traveler  out of the way of the stern ladder (so my wife can climb aboard from our beach) or to work on the motor, or remove the whole thing quickly. 
Ric
sv Dadventure 
Hampton Bays 

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> On Oct 24, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Graham Stewart <gstewart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 
> Stan:
> What does "GBTSI" refer to?
> 
> What sort of changes need to be made to the back stays to fit the new
> traveller?
> Thanks,
> 
> Graham Stewart
> Agile. R22, 1976
> Kingston Ontario Canada
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of
> Mark Olson
> Sent: October 24, 2017 7:52 AM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes
> 
> I tried using the old one a couple times and finally just left it in the
> middle.
> 
> I just installed my new traveler and used it for the first time yesterday. 
> Had a nice sail on the Tappan Zee section of the Hudson River north of
> Nyack.  We had a beautiful run downwind then had to tack into 10 to 12 knot
> winds to get back to the mooring.  I ran the helm and repositioned the
> traveler on tacks.  My sailing partner took care of the jib.  Using the
> traveler to increase the pointing saved us at least 2 if not 4 tacks and got
> us back before dark.
> 
> Mark Olson
> 1983 - Satchmo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Spitzer
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:25 AM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes
> 
> 
> In the humble opinion of the GB engineering department, this system is
> 100% wrong./*
> */
> One of the advantages of a loose footed sail is the ease and degree of
> draft setting it allows. However you do not want drat setting to take
> the sail out of its being in the same plane as its boom.  To do so would
> depreciate the value of the traveler in pointing. Therefore setting up
> the connection of the main sail to the out-haul car so this distance
> from said car to the sail is variable, is undesirable.
> 
> With the GB system the sail is "hard wired" (is fixed) to the out-haul
> car so that no matter what draft is set in the sail by your positioning
> of the out-haul car, the sail remains in the same plane as the boom.
> This makes the traveler a much more efficient aid in pointing ability.
> 
> The GB new traveler system invention, with its single endless push or
> pull control line that requires no cleating, therefor allowing for
> comfortable use of the traveler regardless of the captain's preferred
> port or starboard perch, encourages the use of a traveler for so much
> better sailing performance.
> 
> A valuable upgrading for any Rhodes not already having a GBTSI: $495 for
> non C of S community members.  $395 for C of S sailors.
> 
> stan
> 
> 
> 
> **/*
> 
> */
> On 10/23/17 4:52 PM, Lowe, Rob wrote:
>> JD,
>> Found this diagram posted a few years ago.  Typical outhaul arrangement. 
>> See if this helps any. - rob
>> 
>> 
> http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20100517/e3dd357
> 6/attachment.pdf
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf 
>> Of JD
>> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 4:16 PM
>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes
>> 
>> That helps more than you know .....thanks Rick......now another question 
>> if you don't mind .....the cam cleat that your main sheet is connected to 
>> , that you use to set your sail position, what is considered the right 
>> side up , the cleat on bottom or top........thanks
>> 
>> 
>> 
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