AIDY
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any suggestion's what equipment i need for a set of barber haulers on a 40 foot yacht to fly a kite.... just have a sheet and guy at present which run through a block on the tow rail.
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lw395
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A barber hauler on a spinnaker sheet is also known as a twinning line, strangler or choke.
You want something like 20ft of say 12mm line, with a block on the end. The spi sheet runs through the block. The twinning line then runs through another block on or near the toe rail around the main shrouds. The twinning line will want a heavy duty cleat to secure it.
This set up is common on smaller boats.
On a 40 ft boat, consider separate sheets and guys, the guys being led from further forward along the toe rail. That way you can take the load off the guys to gybe the pole.
You want something like 20ft of say 12mm line, with a block on the end. The spi sheet runs through the block. The twinning line then runs through another block on or near the toe rail around the main shrouds. The twinning line will want a heavy duty cleat to secure it.
This set up is common on smaller boats.
On a 40 ft boat, consider separate sheets and guys, the guys being led from further forward along the toe rail. That way you can take the load off the guys to gybe the pole.
bbg
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Do you have separate sheets and guys?
If not, sheets run from the clews through the tweaker blocks (which are set up as in the post above) to turning blocks on the quarter. The guy side tweaker is pulled down so the lead runs to (about) amidships. Sheet side goes to the quarter as normal. During a gybe, you choke both sides down, then free up the new sheet side after the gybe.
If you have separate sheets and guys, you can still add the tweakers to the sheets, but their primary role will be to choke down the sheet when running deep in heavy wind. It stabilises the sail, but I suspect will not be of much value to most cruising / shorthanded crews, because they will probably not be flying the chute in the kinds of conditions in which it would be helpful.
Edit - to directly answer your question. Assuming you are only using one set of sheets (and not sheets and guys each side), in addition to the turning block you have on the toe rail (hopefully at the quarter), you will need:
- a pair of blocks for the sheets to run through. Something like models 125, 146 or 168 on this Harken page.
- a line to be spliced onto the block, and run through the blocks on the toerail (amidships) back to a jammer / winch / cleat. Ideally a winch because you might want to ease them rather than just blow them
- another pair of blocks on the toerail - like the ones above but with a swivel to align the load
The blocks I have provided a link to are to show the right shape, not the right size.
If not, sheets run from the clews through the tweaker blocks (which are set up as in the post above) to turning blocks on the quarter. The guy side tweaker is pulled down so the lead runs to (about) amidships. Sheet side goes to the quarter as normal. During a gybe, you choke both sides down, then free up the new sheet side after the gybe.
If you have separate sheets and guys, you can still add the tweakers to the sheets, but their primary role will be to choke down the sheet when running deep in heavy wind. It stabilises the sail, but I suspect will not be of much value to most cruising / shorthanded crews, because they will probably not be flying the chute in the kinds of conditions in which it would be helpful.
Edit - to directly answer your question. Assuming you are only using one set of sheets (and not sheets and guys each side), in addition to the turning block you have on the toe rail (hopefully at the quarter), you will need:
- a pair of blocks for the sheets to run through. Something like models 125, 146 or 168 on this Harken page.
- a line to be spliced onto the block, and run through the blocks on the toerail (amidships) back to a jammer / winch / cleat. Ideally a winch because you might want to ease them rather than just blow them
- another pair of blocks on the toerail - like the ones above but with a swivel to align the load
The blocks I have provided a link to are to show the right shape, not the right size.