Having decided on a colour for the awning

[Wansworth]

What shape and means of fixing .Potential boat has lazy jacks and a main sheet in front of the companion way.Best suspended under the boom with a cut out for the main sheet.

 

[KevinV]

Over the boom gives more headroom.

 

[Wansworth]

Over the boom gives more headroom.

But what do you do with the lazy jacks?

 

[KevinV]

pull them down/forward to the gooseneck

 

[Sea Change]

Have you bought a boat??!

 

[Wansworth]

Have you bought a boat??!

It’s going to be decided this week end

 

[rogerthebodger]

Lazy jacks are only needed when you lower the sail and if left up while sailing will chafe the sail

so keep then pulled forward at the goose neck until you need to lower the sail and that's the only you need then aft

 

[vyv_cox]

But what do you do with the lazy jacks?

In my photo in your previous thread you can just about make out the lazy jacks alongside the mast, as said, pulled along to the gooseneck. The lines you can see hold up the ends of the grp poles, Vango 3 metre tent poles. These are tied down to the guard wires. This is a far better arrangement than the widely seen tent style draped over the boom but there was quite a lot of construction sewing to get them right.

 

[Wansworth]

In my photo in your previous thread you can just about make out the lazy jacks alongside the mast, as said, pulled along to the gooseneck. The lines you can see hold up the ends of the grp poles, Vango 3 metre tent poles. These are tied down to the guard wires. This is a far better arrangement than the widely seen tent style draped over the boom but there was quite a lot of construction sewing to get them right.

Ok,thanks……with all this heat I was keen to sort out the idea of a canopy asp…I have a sewing machine that does sails so might cut up an old gaff mainsail……not much call hereabouts

 

[Boathook]

What shape and means of fixing .Potential boat has lazy jacks and a main sheet in front of the companion way.Best suspended under the boom with a cut out for the main sheet.

Put up a picture of the potential boat. So much easier to give advice about the awning .....

and possibly the boat, even if unwanted !

 

[KevinV]

Put up a picture of the potential boat. So much easier to give advice about the awning .....

and possibly the boat, even if unwanted !

Don't!!! Every boat he's shown us he hasn't bought!!

 

[Boathook]

Don't!!! Every boat he's shown us he hasn't bought!!

He should thank us for the money saved then

 

[Wansworth]

Don't!!! Every boat he's shown us he hasn't bought!!

 

[Stemar]

Get rid of the mainsheet by disconnecting it from the boom and tying the boom to the backstay (maybe not in that order, especially if it's breezy) and run a line under the boom from the kicking strap fitting to the mainsheet fitting. Tension it with a trucker's hitch. Much tidier than over the sail, and you don't have to disturb the lazyjacks

To keep rain off, a tarp from the Spanish equivalent of Toolstation, if you're only bothered about sun, we use a king-sized bedsheet with loops sewn to the corners.