Genoa sheets ... type of rope?

[Ravi]

My Corribee genoa sheet is 12mm, and I prefer handling it to the 10mm (or was it 8mm?) .......

As an aside I attach it to the genoa with a sheetbend onto a sliced pendant. Works really well, and won't take a tooth out if it clouts you in the face like a shackle will.

I also prefer 12mm, but then I like to leap about and pull ropes. And yes, the size of the knot on the clew attachment is a pain for me. So, I would be interested to hear a bit more about your system I am not sure what you mean by a 'sliced pendant'.
VicS. I understand the loop bit of your system but am not sure how you attach the loop.

(Apologies for the thread drift but, hopefully, others are interested.)

 

[VicS]

VicS. I understand the loop bit of your system but am not sure how you attach the loop.

(Apologies for the thread drift but, hopefully, others are interested.)

I stitch and whip a loop, or soft eye, in the centre of the rope. Into the stitching and whipping I incorporate a short length of something a little lighter (8mm for a 12mm sheet ??? ) which has a stopper knot ( just a figure of 8 knot will do) in the end .

The loop or eye goes through the clew cringle and the knotted tail goes through the loop. Something else to photograph sometime!

 

[Debenair]

Everybody seems to use much larger diameter ropes than me.
I have 10mm on main and Genoa, 10mm spectra on halyards, 8mm on reefing pendants also spectra, and 8mm on pole lift and down haul.
On Nigel Theadom's advice I use 8mm melange on my asymmetric sheets 80 sq m.
Boat is SO 36i.

 

[sailorman]

I think the existing genoa sheets are "gloss finish" maybe changing to matt would not be so wise. The mainsheet is definitely matt.

I have a piece of 10mm rope here. Not so sure about reducing the sheet size to that. I cannot grip it all that well.

Matt is far better to handle for most o/b ropes

 

[ronsurf]

I swear I correct the auto spell more often than it corrects me! That should be spliced pendant. Take a short piece of three strand rope, thread it through the clew and splice the ends together. All my sails have a pendant in the clew. This gives you a loop where you can tie the sheet with a sheetbend. Either tie each sheet individually, or hold the ends together and tie as one knot, which is what I do. I'm very wary of having metal bits in my sails, especially the flappy ones.

 

[LittleSister]

12mm seems way too heavy (and expensive) for a "small boat" genoa sheet. True, it is easier on the hands, but hopefully you're winching it, not hauling it, so you only need to tail it off the winch.

In my experience one is much less likely to be winching in the sheet in on a small (cruising) boat, so adequate thickness for comfortable 'hauling' may well be as, or more, important than on a larger boat. (On my own boat its not often I use a winch handle.)

 

[Lon nan Gruagach]

Type of rope: Free, what ever I can find on the beach.
Each fore sail has 2 sheets eye spliced onto the cringle with tapered finish, absolute minimum knotty lumpy clutter to get caught

 

[VicS]

I also prefer 12mm, but then I like to leap about and pull ropes. And yes, the size of the knot on the clew attachment is a pain for me. So, I would be interested to hear a bit more about your system I am not sure what you mean by a 'sliced pendant'.
VicS. I understand the loop bit of your system but am not sure how you attach the loop.

(Apologies for the thread drift but, hopefully, others are interested.)

I stitch and whip a loop, or soft eye, in the centre of the rope. Into the stitching and whipping I incorporate a short length of something a little lighter (8mm for a 12mm sheet ??? ) which has a stopper knot ( just a figure of 8 knot will do) in the end .

The loop or eye goes through the clew cringle and the knotted tail goes through the loop. Something else to photograph sometime!

Now photographed. I works. It hasn't shaken free and the tail has not been pulled back through the cringle.

 

[Ravi]

Vic,

Thanks, I shall be back on the boat in a couple of weeks and I will give it a go.

Rav.