[Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes

[Stan Spitzer]

if you have the prior 5' ss bar type, none.

just lazy plus lots to get to:  General Boats traveler system invention

On 10/24/17 2:27 PM, Graham Stewart wrote:
> Stan:
> What does "GBTSI" refer to?
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> 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
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> -----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
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> -----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
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> 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
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> http://www.rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20100517/e3dd357
> 6/attachment.pdf
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>> -----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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