Attaching Jib sheets

On my present boat I have snapshackles. They came with the boat and, so far, I am still using the same sheets. The 145% genoa is on a furler and I have never had to go anywhere near a flogging clew.

On my previous boat I had one long line serving as both sheets. It was fastened in the middle by a constrictor knot through the clew ring. It started as an experiment and stayed there because it worked. The constrictor does not work loose and its construction provides a smooth passage when tacking. That boat (Centaur) had a baby stay and that was a real PITA with bowlines before I thought about the long line knotted in the middle. The only disadvantage is that the sheet remains in place and is exposed to the weather 24/365.
 
ArthurJStoatfondler said:
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Lumps of metal like that attached to the clew will kill you if you have to get onto the foredeck and deal with a flogging foresail.
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FFS you don't think I'm using them. I was just demonstrating a knot. I would be putting the sheets directly through the clew. That rope is also not my jib sheet
 
I make a pendant for the clew, then fasten the sheets to the pendant with a sheetbend. I figure it's the knot to use, the clue is in the name.

Easy to undo which is a major plus.
 
on my first 3 boats > 26` in th daze before "soft shackles" i worked a turks head in a length of 3m/m cord made fast in the centre of the double sheet then made a loop in the tail. pass the loop through the clew & insert the turks.
last 2 boats i use bowline with 2 sheets. never had one let go, can end for end them & occasionally get a foul-up on the baby stay
 
Push the rope through the clew cringle and end with a figure eight or double overhand knot.

What has always put me off the cow hitch or derivitives of it, are as explained to me by a sailmaker (when developing dinghy sails) that the pull is different from port to starboard. If you look at the knot when on the sail, both tails come out the same side of the sail, which can mean that the jib (slot) is closer on one tack than the other (May only be noticible on dinghies where the sails are smaller)..

With the figure of eight you get equal angles on both tacks.

Jon
 
Gordonmc said:
Iain,
I use a continuous line, but I whipped a loop in the middle to attach to the clew using a soft shackle.
It makes life a lot easier if I want to use the same sheets for the storm sail or even the stay sail on the inner forestay.
Your second will slip
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This is the method I fancy- maybe not a continuous line but certainly the soift shackle. Bowlines tend to nsag on the shrouds.
 
Spyro said:
FFS you don't think I'm using them. I was just demonstrating a knot. I would be putting the sheets directly through the clew. That rope is also not my jib sheet
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"FFS", as you would say. How do we know what we're looking at? You might have a small dinghy for all I know with thin sheets and a stupid great ring attached to the clew. Sufficient to say a cowhitch as anyone who could provide a sensible answer would know what that knot looks like.
The answer BTW is no; not a sensible knot for the purpose you describe, unless you have a small dinghy and even then not the best solution.
 
Gordonmc said:
Iain,
I use a continuous line, but I whipped a loop in the middle to attach to the clew using a soft shackle.
It makes life a lot easier if I want to use the same sheets for the storm sail or even the stay sail on the inner forestay.
Your second will slip
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+1

That's the best I've found for my set-up as well.
 
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