Steviecracknell
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Does anyone know the length of the main sheet for the trapped 500, the yacht doesn't have one fitted.
Cheers Stevie.
Cheers Stevie.
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johnalison
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The photos I've seen have a 2:1 mainsheet.i would guess that the boom when fully out would give a run of no more than five metres, so 10m would be needed, plus a tail of perhaps 3m. 15m should do it, and you could cut any extra off and use it for disciplining the crew. Please don't spend any money until you have checked my guesstimate.
Burnham Bob
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pretty sure mine has a double tackle which would be 4 to 1 - amazing how something so familiar can be shrouded in mystery when you try to remember! yup - just looked on an old photo of SWMBO in the cockpit and its definitely 4 to 1
Ceirwan
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I wouldn't have thought anyone will have the figures to hand.
Work out the distance from the traveller to the boom end at maximum boom out, multiply it by 4 or whatever your purchase system is, usually its 4 on a boat this size. And then add a metre or so to give you something left at the end.
Work out the distance from the traveller to the boom end at maximum boom out, multiply it by 4 or whatever your purchase system is, usually its 4 on a boat this size. And then add a metre or so to give you something left at the end.
johnalison
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I agree that 4:1 seems most likely but if you google Trapper 500 and view the images, there are several which look like 2:1, which puzzled me. I can't paste one in from my pad.
VicS
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Without doubt 4:1 in this video!
And this one at just over 2 mins in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD42xjSYZvM
And this one at just over 2 mins in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD42xjSYZvM
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johnalison
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Definitely! But not so obvious in these web photos, better in the originals, especially lower left.
Joker
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It's easy enough to rig it one way or the other - just a question of getting the right blocks.
GrahamP
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Stevie,
My Trapper 500 has a 4:1 block. In my opinion a 2:1 block would be very hard work. Distance between blocks with boom centred is 1.3m. However, you would need to know the distance with the boom fully out - sail reaching the shrouds - to calculate the length of rope needed.
Graham
My Trapper 500 has a 4:1 block. In my opinion a 2:1 block would be very hard work. Distance between blocks with boom centred is 1.3m. However, you would need to know the distance with the boom fully out - sail reaching the shrouds - to calculate the length of rope needed.
Graham
Joker
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From an old Trapper brochure [early 70s]:
VicS
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That looks like 1:1 to me
BrianH
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The Trapper forum would have been the ideal place to have asked - http://trapperyachts.org.uk/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=3
This one is original with 4:1 :
That image shows here on this forum as very small, while the original that it is linked to is much larger at : http://homepage.hispeed.ch/bhny/Trappinit.html
This one is original with 4:1 :
That image shows here on this forum as very small, while the original that it is linked to is much larger at : http://homepage.hispeed.ch/bhny/Trappinit.html
