Re: jib boom
Mac Davis (mcmd@innet.com)
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:42:19 -0400
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Greetings:
If you want the jib boom to be self tacking, rig it so that a single sheet
runs from the aft end of the boom, down through a block forward of the mast
on centerline, and thence to the cockpit as convenient. If you do it this
way, tacking becomes a matter of pulling the tiller to leeward and making
sure everyone ducks. If the jib was correctly trimmed on one tack, it
should be pretty close on the opposite tack.
Hope this helps,
Mac Davis, Kelpie, WWP19#804, Aripeka, Fl
----- Original Message -----
From: hushnel <hushnel@bellsouth.net>
To: west wight web <wwpotter@tscnet.com>; james nolan
<nolan_laboratories@email.msn.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: jib boom
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> Hello Jim,
> I've seen the jib boom used for self tacking, the sheeting of which I
> don't understand but imagine port and starboard being of equal lengths.
You
> are limited in the size of your jib in that the boom needs to clear the
mast
> and the deck.
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