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From: William Shurr
>A pre-Turkey thought: Has anyone ever tried to create a simple lazyjack
>system for a Potter 15 by dropping a line or two from the mid-point
>of the topping lift to the mid-point of the boom? Sounds so simple that
>there must be something wrong with the idea!
>Happy Thanksgiving to all.
>BILL, "Bilzbote" NC
>
Does any of the PY's remember how Bruce Little had his LJ set up? As I can
recall he had an 1/8" line tied in a loop that went under the boom and up to
two lines that were attached to the top of the mast, one to a padeye, and
the other through a cheek block and down to a cleat on the side of the mast.
The looped line passed through two padeyes on the underside of the boom.
>From the gooseneck, one padeye was at about %25 and the other about %66 of
the length of the boom. I remember him telling that during the testing
phase he taped the padeyes to the boom so he could move them. He said that
he tried different locations (for the padeyes) and lengths of line (for the
loop) until he got it right. The rig was adjustable although asymmetrical
when used as only one side of the loop was raised or lowered. That didn't
seem to be a problem as the rig worked fine.
Larry