If you can find the March 2003 issue of Sailing World magazine, there is a picture of Glenn Ashby's center sheeting system on his A Cat on page 52. Just behind the main sheet block on the trampoline is a plastic ring attached to a piece of shock cord (I'm guessing here) that exits from this small groumet. The main sheet runs from the main sheet block to the sailor's hand back to the plastic ring. The knot that connects the end of the main sheet and the line for the traveler is on the other side of the ring. I rigged up a similar sytem on my boat and it does work. When you need to adjust the traveler, you pull pull on end of the main sheet attached to the traveler until the knot stops at the ring. You keep pulling to bring the plastic ring to you and then you grab the traveler line when it gets close enough and adjust the traveler. The plastic ring snaps back to the trampoline when you grab the traveler line. I didn't like the set up but maybe I was using too short or to thick a piece of shock cord because I found it hard to pull the ring to me in order to adjust the traveler and I didn't like the snap back of the ring. It did keep the main sheet from dragging in the water when out on the wire which I did like. Maybe I'll try rigging it again with a lighter weight piece of shock cord.

I maybe wrong on how to rig it because I backwards engineered it from the magazine picture.

Jennifer Lindsay
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