Slab / Single line boom reefing

[AIDY]

Been pondering about taking the lines out of the boom to give them a wash and to try and untangle them a bit as they seem to always want to coil and get in a knot when reefing.

Intend to mouse the lines through the boom but how are the lines routed. I have a red/blue/green reefing lines that comes back to clutchs and winchs in cockpit but they have two other ends one that is bow lined to the rear of the boom after it has been through the eye at the back of the sail and another that is attached using a shackle to an eye at the front of the main sail.

I've never seen a bit of rope with 3 ends before /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif assume it is either joined in the middle or this bit of rope is actually two bits....

any advice on getting it out without getting in a mess would be nice /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[lumphammer]

This is quite a useful page describing different reefing systems

 

[Norman_E]

One single line system has a pair of linked blocks inside the boom. Shown in a small diagram on this web page

 

[rodwhite]

A point to watch out for when feeding lines back down the inside of the boom is that they don't get twisted around the out haul or each other. My single line reefing was a real pain so removed boom with the view to improve with larger pulleys at both end's only to find a better plait than a school girl's pig tail-did not think to shine torch up and have a look -all lines matched coming out both end's of boom

 

[Danny]

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I've never seen a bit of rope with 3 ends before /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif assume it is either joined in the middle or this bit of rope is actually two bits....

[/ QUOTE ]Absolutely right - two bits - but one of the bits only has one end of course! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif