Spaghetti Junction

Colin_S

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Just had a tot up of the various sheets and other stringy things on the racing yacht I crewed on over the weekend. I reckon there's at least 20 led back to the cockpit plus various others on the mast.
Is this just downright greedy?

Can we start a line envy thing here?
 

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Hmm .. going the opposite way, I've only the genoa sheets, the main sheet and occationally the spinnaker sheet and guy in the cockpit. Everything else is at the mast.

Probably a good thing, the cockpit isn't that big /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Regards, Jeff.
 

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Reference winches: That leaves me feeling very insecure with only 7 plus a windlass....

Lines in the cockpit of our CRUISING boat: Thirteen...

Two genoa halyards, spinnaker halyard, main halyard, topping lift, three reefing pennants, kicking strap, two genoa sheets, one mainsheet, one roller reefing line.

There are still several more at the mast...

Do I count son's fishing line in the cockpit?
 

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If you have 2 roller reefing forsails you would need 11 not counting windlass
2 each side of cockpit for sheets when using both forsails
2 each side of cockpit for roller reefing lines
1 each side of mast for Main and 1 spare for lifting, stormsail etc.
1 on boom for reefing Main.
That makes 11
Why does NAS only have 10.
 

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No roller reefing so only 3, foresail sheets + main sheet. Only 3 winches on the boat as well, two (bottom action, tufnol, single speed) sheet winches and one halyard winch. I was thinking of trading down to a pair of handy billys for the sheets plus three days a week on the bullworker so I can sweat the halyards up without a winch.
 

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If you install a winch in the center of the cockpit you can use it for both tacks. Pluss 1 on the mast for main and forsail although this could be open to debate.
 

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While I do have three winches on the mast, I pratically only ever use the one under the boom for hauling in the reefing lines. The other two are for the genoa halyard and the spinnaker halyard which I can normally bring in tight enough by hand (as long as nobody sheets in too quickly). Got to be a benefit of a smaller boat.

The cockpit does have four winches as well, for the genoa and spinnaker sheets. I have to own up to missing a line in my cockpit count, the reefing line for the head sail. In my defence I could say that it normally sits outside the cockpit, just.

Jeff.
 

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I've got 20 and 4 winches on my Cruising Jouet 680 - and its only 23 foot. 22 if I count the barber haulers, and 24 if I could be bothered to rig the genoa car lines for adjustment.
Mine includes a topping lift which no one seems to have mentioned yet.
 

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Forgot the genoa cars, that's 2 more (although not working at the moment).
Got my head round most of them but it does get confusing when asked to ease off the clew outhaul etc which normally results in a vacant expression on my part.
 
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