Subject: [harryproa] Re: Schooner sheeting angles?
From: "robert" <cateran1949@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 10/27/2009, 5:06 AM
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
Reply-to:
harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au

 

Unable to use the link.
Any snatch block anywhere near the lee hull stops the ability of the rig weather cocking in case of being caught aback

--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, "robertbiegler" <Robert.Biegler@...> wrote:
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>
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> --- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Gardner Pomper <gardner@> wrote:
> > you still only end up with a sheeting angle
> > of about 15 degrees, when the boom is fully out perpendicular to the
> > boat, on a downwind run.
> >
> > I know there has been alot of talk about schooner rig for the harrys,
> > so someone must have worked out this problem. What's the solution?
>
> A suggestion is at http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/gMflSriHHzXL6WEBFmv0B5iVwrdirAcw_fmmcBJX6s28spCvOHdh_DG6rNqW7G527thD73f6f-7cUe8XmScEbfAoPm4gvvRaRUY68F8/Snatchblock%20repl.jpg (Snatchblockrepl.jpg in the Files section). It should be possible to adapt the idea for a schooner rig. This is vapourware, so I make no promises that it will work if you rig a boat that way.
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Biegler
>

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