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Posts: 439 Memphis, TN | Ok, since I didn't do much of this when I was on my TheMightyHobie18, but with the F16, I will be doing plenty of it...But it's actually a dumb question, but I have to ask...
When Trapping out what do you do with the excess sheet? Put it over your leg, throw it back onto the boat or what??? If the wind is a little puffy, it's kind of hard to keep it from getting too much excess and it falling in the water and then trying to throw it back on to the boat...if that's what I have to do, that's what I have to do..I'm just wonderinf if there is something I'm missing or more efficient....
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#177311 05/06/09 11:24 AM 05/06/09 11:24 AM |
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,121 Eastern NC, USA tshan
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Posts: 1,121 Eastern NC, USA | I have found the best way to manage it is to make sure I wrap it around both feet, feed it through my trapeze harness buckle and make sure the main sheet/traveller loop gets around my tiller extension.
This method does nto allow any of the sheet to drag in the water.
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Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,121 Eastern NC, USA tshan
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Posts: 1,121 Eastern NC, USA | Pile it in your lap/across your legs and "flick" it back onto the tramp every once and a while.
Some people used to put a little velcro against the rear beam. you could snatch it free when needed, but it will catch slack when not under tension. I've never done this _ just "flick" back on every once and a while.
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#177323 05/06/09 12:26 PM 05/06/09 12:26 PM |
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Posts: 4,118 Northfield Mn | Mike, that should me you feel at home. LOL I do pretty much the same exact thing as tshan's 2nd, (and hopefully more serious), post. | | | Re: Trapping out UPWIND..
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Posts: 2,921 Michigan | I have found the best way to manage it is to make sure I wrap it around both feet, feed it through my trapeze harness buckle and make sure the main sheet/traveller loop gets around my tiller extension.
This method does nto allow any of the sheet to drag in the water. You're totally forgeting a the critical wrap or two around your neck. If possible have at least one going under an armpit as well. don't forget the obligatory wrap around the daggerboard too (the spin sheet that is already there needs company). And rudder too... | | | Re: Trapping out UPWIND..
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#177381 05/07/09 12:01 AM 05/07/09 12:01 AM |
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Posts: 539 | Ok, since I didn't do much of this when I was on my TheMightyHobie18, but with the F16, I will be doing plenty of it...But it's actually a dumb question, but I have to ask...
When Trapping out what do you do with the excess sheet? Put it over your leg, throw it back onto the boat or what??? If the wind is a little puffy, it's kind of hard to keep it from getting too much excess and it falling in the water and then trying to throw it back on to the boat...if that's what I have to do, that's what I have to do..I'm just wonderinf if there is something I'm missing or more efficient....
Mike Seen a few cats that would have a plastic ring tied to a bungee through a hole in the middle of the tramp. The combined traveller and mainsheet would go through the plastic ring pulling the sheet into the boat. Can still access as the ring is on the bungee. Only problem is can't dump the traveller easily from the wire, but that is something I have done in perhaps a handful of times during my sailing career, so not a show-stopper. | | | Re: Trapping out UPWIND..
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Posts: 201 Adelaide, South Australia | Most people have way too much sheet. You should be able to have trav at end of track and push boom out until its about 20cm from sidestay, at this point you should have less than 1m of sheet left over.
You also save a lot of traveller sheet if your trav cleat is on the car and not fixed to the beam. Thanks. I have been wondering if i have to much sheet for a while now, but been to scared to cut anything, I'll test it out next time the boat is rigged. just cut 2 metres of the spinnaker halyard which has cleaned up the trap a lot too.
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#177388 05/07/09 03:41 AM 05/07/09 03:41 AM |
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Posts: 954 Mumbles Y.C Wales U.K | I haven't managed to find the complete list of results for Eurocat but congratulations for getting a bullet in one of the races. How much was a beer this year? MP*MULTIHULLS | | | Re: Trapping out UPWIND..
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Posts: 976 France | [...]When Trapping out what do you do with the excess sheet? [...] Seen a few cats that would have a plastic ring tied to a bungee through a hole in the middle of the tramp. The combined traveller and mainsheet would go through the plastic ring pulling the sheet into the boat.[...] Crossing the sheets is a good way to keep everything on the trampoline. You cross your main/traveller sheet with your jib sheet. Bothe will now stay on the trampoline. If you don't have a jib, crossing with the spinnaker sheet is also possible. | | | Re: Trapping out UPWIND..
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#177401 05/07/09 07:49 AM 05/07/09 07:49 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe Wouter
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Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe | You also save a lot of traveller sheet if your trav cleat is on the car and not fixed to the beam.
Please provide proof for that because mathematics really do not agree with you here. The difference is about a foot of sheet at max, that way. Wouter
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#177409 05/07/09 09:44 AM 05/07/09 09:44 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe Wouter
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Posts: 9,582 North-West Europe | I think I now understand what he means.
It saves sheet line when you use the following as the main criterium for minimal sheet length :
"You should be able to have trav at end of track and push boom out until its about 20cm from sidestay, at this point you should have less than 1m of sheet left over"
I always set the length so I can still control the boat singlehandedly (when traveller centred) from the luff hull in 20 knots of wind and mavouring for position before the start. For that criterium the difference in length is negligigle between both setups. I typically have to sheet out alot that way. Trapping then requires a tighter sail and pulling the sheet in to achieve that seems to provide enough extra sheet to lead it outboard.
Interestingly enough, when I really have to dump the main while trapping I typically hold on the traveller line as the knot between it and the sheet has then passed through my hand. This knot is located just far enough that when I blow the traveller cleat (mid beam setup) that the traveller car just can't hit its end stop.
I didn't understand Macca's comments fully first time around.
Wouter
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | Here's something else you can do to shorten up the amount of mainsheet you need; hang your top blocks from a longer tail or leash or strap or something, off the boom. Every inch you can lower the blocks saves 9" of sheet on a 9-1 main set up.
I have added a Dyneema rock climbing strap, about 12" long, to the top of my blocks, that I then pass through the clew, around the boom and back down to the S hook I have shackled to my top blocks. This lowers the top blocks about 4" total from the boom, and has the added benefit of being able to quickly unhook the blocks from the boom when I get to the beach. No tools required, I just slip the end of the loop off the S hook.
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Posts: 3,528 Looking for a Job, I got credi... | Here's something else you can do to shorten up the amount of mainsheet you need; hang your top blocks from a longer tail or leash or strap or something, off the boom. Every inch you can lower the blocks saves 9" of sheet on a 9-1 main set up.
I have added a Dyneema rock climbing strap, about 12" long, to the top of my blocks, that I then pass through the clew, around the boom and back down to the S hook I have shackled to my top blocks. This lowers the top blocks about 4" total from the boom, and has the added benefit of being able to quickly unhook the blocks from the boom when I get to the beach. No tools required, I just slip the end of the loop off the S hook. No good for me; I get my mainsheet block-to-block in moderate+ winds (of course you have to easy some when it gets silly windy!)
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