| Rigging/Attaching the Sail
- Randy Sweet
on 2/16/2004 |
| I don`t understand how the sail is rigged ... held in place at the top of the mast ... boom conduit and vertical conduit held together ...stainless eye straps bolted to the conduit ? Do you have any pics of the sail configuration, rigging, etc. ? |
| RE: Rigging/Attaching the Sail
- burnie
on 2/17/2004 |
1. Drill a 1/4"" thru hole 1"" from the end of each piece of conduit. Place a 1/4"" bolt through the hole fastening the two pieces together. I use a nylok-nut so it does not fall off.
2. Slide the conduit into the hems on the sail. Mark the pieces of conduit where the openings are in the sail hems for the locations of the marine eye straps. Reference dims on drawing IB-0002. Remove the conduit from the sail.
3. Drill all the holes and mount all the eyes.
4. Slide the conduit back into the sail and tie the lines sewn into sail to the ends of the conduit.
5. Cut a short piece of 1/4"" rope and tie a knot in one end. Slide the other end of the rope through one of the eye straps on the boom (3/4"" conduit) at the 18.75 dim and pull it through until the knot is against the eye. Run the lose end through the other eye and pull it till you leave a loop large enough to slide the mast through. This is the boom pivot point!
6. Run a line through the eye strap at the 57"" dim and tie a knot in it. I also wrap it around the conduit once at that location and tie it off again. (I`ve broke that eye once before I started using metal ones.) This is the line that will raise and lower your sail.
7. Slip the mast through the rope loop on the boom and rig the 3 mast cables.
8. Take the line attached at the 57"" dim and run it through the eye at the top of the mast. Pull that line and the sail will be lifted into position. Tie the line off to a cleat mounted some where near the base of the mast. Be careful, releasing that line will drop the sail very quickly!!!
9. Run a line for the boom, attached from the center of the beam up through the ring at the end of the boom to the ring in the center of the boom and make it long enough so the boom can be sheeted till it rest against the cable for the mast and still be tied to a cleat on the center post of the frame between your legs. I use an eye bolt on the rear beam and a carabineer on that end of the line instead of a cleat.
PLEASE Refer to the Olson park pics on the website for more detail there are some pretty good shots of the rigging there.
I hope this helps, if not ask detailed question and we`ll take care of it that way. |
| Great new pics of rigging!
- burnie
on 2/24/2004 |
| Leigh from NJ submitted some new pics that have some great shots of the rigging. He did a great job on his boat and the rigging shots should answer lots of question. |