I am looking a the picture posted and am confused??? I've never seen a tick-tack mounted that far forward on a pole. Most of the time they are mounted much further aft on the pole. Since someday I would like to have a neat toy like that I would like to know reasons for mounting that far forward?
On my H-18 I have mounted compasses in the hull ports, they hurt when you sit on them!!! and I can't see them from the wire. But they are great with the magnum wings, the compasses are at your feet. Most the time I just suffer w/ my good ole' Garmin 12 around my neck. I haven't found a method/location that I'm confident will work and won't let the $$$tick-tack$$$ get torn off the boat by the jib-sheets of the big overlap P-19mx jib.
We have installed a self tacking jib on this I20. The red lines you see just in front of the tack tick are the jib sheets and they sweep back and forth, just over the pole, as we tack/jibe from port to starboard. They wouldn't be able to get around the compass if we moved them any further back. We made a conscesion to mount the turning blocks further back on the pole to allow room for the tack tick. They are usually mounted right at the bridle (actually this works out almost right geometrically for the tacker since the radius of the tacker is a little small). If we mount the tack tick in front of the bridle, the spin sheets will certainly send it to the deep.
