Positioning of Jackstays and Safety Lines!

[puddock]

I'd use it for my Liferaft painter line ........

Just wondering where people attach their Jackstays and Safety Line.

My old boat had Jackstays running the length of the side decks but I would of thought you would be forever tripping over your line or you could be turfed over the guard rails. I was thinking of running a rope from the mast to the cockpit. It wouldn't foul anything as I won't be using my spray hood. I would also have a line from the mast to the sampson post!

What do you think or is there another tried and tested method utilising the grab rails somehow perhaps

Also do people attach their safety lines to the webbing on their life-jacket or should you really have some sort of proper harness underneath.

I was thinking about this safety line

http://www.force4.co.uk/237/Seago-Double-Elastic-Safety-Line-1-2-1-8m.html

If anyone has a source of cheaper ones i would be interested...

EDIT - Rats just realised if I had paid £10 more I could of bought the same life-jacket with built in harness Crewsaver 150 I wonder if mine would be strong enough!

Already seems to be a d ring maybe for that purpose below the entrance!

 

[Zagato]

I'd use it for my Liferaft painter line ........

On my little boat Puddock

Maybe if they did a one man raft...

Well she doesn't need a lifejacket... Ah c'mon someone was going to say it.

Stop smiling and get your hands off boy!

 

[onesea]

On my little boat Puddock

Its also worth remembering that, your little boat.. No disrespect, great boat.

IMHO Consider the conditions you are likely to be out in and equip to the worst of those.

Agree the harness points look a little small... Just remember the size weight and construction your boat. Is there any point using a 10t U bolt on a boat that weighs 2 or 3? Then fixing it to fibre glass that can support only 1?

Then if you beef it up the relevant bits to the standard that is suitable do you really need a harness point that can lift the boat?

My last boat 24 foot bilge keeler in the time I had her people kept saying you need built in Echo Sounder, wind gear, VHF, AIS, GPS, Liferaft dedicated strong harness points, all halyards lead to the cockpit, lazy jacks etc etc

For what the boat was used for and that it would be overkill..

 

[Zagato]

Its also worth remembering that, your little boat.. No disrespect, great boat.

I hope my sailing all works out this time, I've finally got the perfect boat for my needs/desires and wouldn't want anything bigger for short handed sailing especially for going through Chichester Marina Lock (for the occasional bit of luxury for my wife!). I hope to keep her for many years I loved my past classic cars but when I sold them I didn't feel too much loss but if i ever had to sell the Cutter I wouldn't be a happy bunny

Need to get a decent picture painted of her.

 

[WindyOut]

I have side-deck jackstays, but they're seriously dangerous because (a) my tether lifts them off the deck between my legs and (b) they run at the sides of the boat where all the salty wet stuff is that drowns you.

My solution: a sturdy rope tensioned beneath the boom from the boom-end to the gooseneck (99% of the times I go forward, the boom is sheeted in anyway). This way my body cannot go over the side, and my tether stays well away from my feet. Blessed with a roller-reefed foresail, I rarely need to go up the the pointy bit anyway.

Stay dry,
WindyOut

 

[LadyInBed]

I would run them something like this:

 

[zzyyxx]

I would run them something like this:

I guess it depends if you get to the foredeck inside or outside the shrouds, if you go outside then the jackstays need to as well or you'll have a tricky switchover point in the middle.

If you can clamber through the middle then they can run along the coachroof.