boom tent and lazy-jacks

[cambscot]

As per the title.

If you've got lazy-jacks, is there a way to make a boom tent?

Before we had the 'jacks fitted, it was just a tarp thrown over the boom, but the lines get in the way now.

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[fireball]

terminate the lines with clips (or just use knots if you're really tight fisted) and untie when you want to put the tarp over ... just tie them to the shrouds or mast and frap them ...

 

[davidfox]

What I used to do was, tighten my topping lift, lash the sail tight to the boom with a couple of ties and let off the lazy jacks as far as i could so that they hung down, then i slung the cover over that.

Which brings me to the point that now I have a very smart cockpit tent I have a surplus to requirements top of the range 'Blue' (the make) cockpit awning that has only been used twice.

Can i say that here?

 

[ditchcrawler]

My wife made me a nice cockpit tent and she incorporated an opening along the ridge for a line which is used to tie off one end to backstay and the other to attachment points on the boom.The whole lot is suspended under the boom.It works well and can be adjusted to cover all or parts of the cockpit.You do not need an opening or slit for topping lift.

 

[Slinky Spring]

I considered a solution at one point to this problem. My idea was to sew zips to a piece of sailcloth the length of the boom and a few inches wide. This could be wrapped around the bolt rope of the main and pulled into the groove of the boom. My stack bag is attached in this way and works well.
You would then be able to zip on panels on either side to form a tent

 

[ytd]

Our lazyjacks are tensioned to a cleat on each side of the boom. We need to loosen them off and run them forward to the mast to put the sail cover on. Once run forward we can also put up a boom tent.

 

[25931]

Boom tent

I screwed a length of mast tracking to the underside of the boom & sewed a bolt rope in the tent.
Jim

 

[PetiteFleur]

I have a cheap plastic tarp which I use as a cockpit cover when hot(rarely used!). I cut a slot in the forward portion to go round the lazy jack lines with a couple of eyelets to tie together.. Works fine

 

[snowleopard]

I have a stackpack that attaches to the loose foot of the sail, not the boom.

You could also put the tent over a taut line under the boom.

 

[oldsaltoz]

Our jacks were on a halyard at the front of the mast so were just lowered when the tent was needed, fast and simple.

Then we installed a full fixed cover over the cockpit area, about 16 feet wide and 12 feet long, rear end fixed to the targa bar, 3 large solar panels on top.

Avagoodweekend......

 

[MoodySabre]

I put a cleat on the backstay and run a rope from the boom, just under the mast, to the backstay and put a tarp over that. Jackstays and topping lift not affected. I unclip the mainsheet which on a snapshackle and clip that off on the toerail so it is out of the way.

 

[Heckler]

What I used to do was, tighten my topping lift, lash the sail tight to the boom with a couple of ties and let off the lazy jacks as far as i could so that they hung down, then i slung the cover over that.

Which brings me to the point that now I have a very smart cockpit tent I have a surplus to requirements top of the range 'Blue' (the make) cockpit awning that has only been used twice.

Can i say that here?

PM sent, have you received?
Stu

 

[Clyde_Wanderer]

I made a boom tent for my HB30 but made it that it is underslung on boom, it has a ridge sewn into the apex with eyelets along its length through which I pass short lines tied around the boom with reef knots.

Still some refinements to be done, this is the only time I have had it in place Rothesay, while it was on I have noted and marked the alterations necessary to get the pucker out of it but keep forgetting to take it home.
You could attach sail slugs to the ridge and attach them by some means to the under side of boom, better still if it has a groove on the under side, which is my intention, some day.
C_W

 

[Malcb]

I attach my telescopic whisker pole from a point under the boom to a shroud cleat on the backstay. This gives me solid ridge pole for the cockpit tent.

 

[Alfie168]

I lower my lazy jacks, which have a convenient carabiner clip either side, which I unclip, removing any impediment for my cheap blue tarp to become a boom tent. Its not sophisticated, but it works.

Tim

 

[srp]

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If you've got lazy-jacks, is there a way to make a boom tent?

Just put this page up http://corribee.org/technical/boom-tent/
which shows how I did it. On a small boat, it's best to have it slung over the boom, as every inch of headroom counts.