Kerenza
Member
During Sundays race we popped the cover on a 12mm Dyneema sheet, where it turns under the genoa car.
Both sheets have eyes and were attached with a single vectran soft shackle to the clew, making it impossible to release the (now) lazy one to replace it.
Sorted by adding another soft shackle to the loaded sheet , bowline the new sheet on and releasing the old shackle on the next tack. (Seemed more difficult at the time, thinking and holding on and doing.) Of course the tail of the broken sheet then got caught under the genoa car.
Crew now demanding two shackles all the time.
So that didn't help the result.
Both sheets have eyes and were attached with a single vectran soft shackle to the clew, making it impossible to release the (now) lazy one to replace it.
Sorted by adding another soft shackle to the loaded sheet , bowline the new sheet on and releasing the old shackle on the next tack. (Seemed more difficult at the time, thinking and holding on and doing.) Of course the tail of the broken sheet then got caught under the genoa car.
Crew now demanding two shackles all the time.
So that didn't help the result.