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Davegp
ParticipantThanks Oliver – once again that makes alot of sense – I’ll aim to have the split as close to, but just below, the block as possible when the kicker is on max and the boom centred.
Davegp
ParticipantThanks Oliver – that makes alot of sense
Davegp
ParticipantThanks Chris – thats really clear – looking forward to getting back to the boat and trying this out!
Davegp
ParticipantChris thats really interesting – possible I have one of these – as when I didn’t put the pin through the tack cringle – everything did look better!- however, – the bolt rope on the sail’s foot/bottom edge runs all the way to the luff – so it got quite jammed in the track of the boom (at the point where the ‘jaws’ of the track narrow to encase the rope – hope that makes sense) – so I didn’t think that could be the way – is this normal on the ‘modern’ type?
Many thanks
Dave
Davegp
ParticipantJust to say thanks all – wasn’t expecting so many responses from a dull question about old sails! – really helpful.
Good to know about the clew and the boom black band – all the trimming advice I’ve seen says outhaul to the band, but there’s a lot of pictures on the web of what look like nicely trimmed sails where this is clearly not the case – so I shall outhaul to an obvious point of tension from now on
In terms of the luff – yes – I’m hauling the sail up and trying to engage the boom to the gooseneck without any kicker/Cunningham or outhaul – so I suspect that it is a case of an old shrunken bolt rope – I shall have a measure just to be sure though.
Then I’ll take a view as to a new sail of fix the old – the sails are quite old, so might be worth while just going for a nice new one.
Thanks again
Dave
Davegp
ParticipantThanks Oliver
I’m pretty sure I got my black band measurements right – so I think next step is to measure the sail – on thing I have found is a few pictures (on this site and in other places) where people are sailing their GP14 with the tack cringle clearly not in the pin but tied to the mast a little way up – it looks very much like my tack did when I got both head and clew to their bands with the tack ‘unpinned’ – here’s an example:
This seems odd to me but its clearly ‘a thing’ as I’ve seen a few pictures of it – any ideas as to the motivations behind this approach?
Dave
Davegp
ParticipantOliver
Thanks also for your useful reply to my thread about cruising sails – just been researching reefing systems so came across this thread. Really interested in the idea of transom main for cruising, and sorry if this is a really basic question, but would you be able to give a brief description of how that might be achieved? My GP is currently centre main, with a split sheet ending at each stern corner of the transom. I’d obviously need to put a bottom block somewhere on the transom – so would this have to be on a rope ‘horse’ to take it over the tiller? – I understand that early GP’s had some form of metal horse for this purpose. Any guidance you can give would be great.
Davegp
ParticipantThanks for the reply Oliver
That all makes sense – I think my fear of it (the halyard) getting caught on something (most likely the jib sheets) just comes from experience that if a rope on a boat can in theory get caught or tangled, then it eventually always will in practice – normally at the most inconvenient/dangerous time! However, if you’ve experience of leaving it loose with no issues then I’ll give that a go and see how I get on.
Many thanks
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