[Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes

Tue Oct 24 16:12:44 EDT 2017

I have the originalbackstays without the traveller adapters. Is there a kit to adapt the backstays or would i need to get new ones made?

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On Oct 24, 2017, 3:44 PM, at 3:44 PM, Stan Spitzer <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
>
>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?
>>
>> 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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